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JOHN KNUTE WEBER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 3, 1947 – February 3, 1968
Service recordJohn Knute Weber, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 15
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. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 3, 1947
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quang Duc Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Quang Duc Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37E, Line 15
- EUGENE DURWOOD TREADWELLSergeant · February 3, 1968
- ROBERT RANDALL VANGILDERPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- HOWARD GREGORY VAUGHNSergeant · February 3, 1968
- WALLACE LUTTRELL WIGGINSMajor · February 3, 1968
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.