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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Thomas Webber.

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JAMES THOMAS WEBBER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 9, 1950 – June 28, 1970

Service record

James Thomas Webber, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 28, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 101

Position of Panel 9W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 9, 1950
Home of record
Eau Claire, Wisconsin (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1970
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 101

From Eau Claire

All 15 names from Eau Claire →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.