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JOSEPH R WENZLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 7, 1947 – March 13, 1968
Service recordJoseph R Wenzler, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 42
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Bridge Crewmember (12C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- July 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Pennsylvania (Lebanon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 42
- TERRY LEO TRAINORFirst Lieutenant · March 13, 1968
- BOBBY DAN TUCKERPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- JIMMY LEE WATSONChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 13, 1968
- TERRY EMERSON WEBBCorporal · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GLEN HERBERT MOSLEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 37
- DREK ALLEN LANDESSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 38
From Lebanon
- PETER CHARLES MOOREPrivate · April 23, 1964
- JAMES IRVIN BOYERPrivate First Class · September 16, 1965
- CARL THOMAS BAALSpecialist Five · November 9, 1965
- RICHARD SAMUEL MOHNCorporal · July 16, 1966
- GARY WAYNE FRIEDMANNSeaman · March 11, 1967
- HAROLD CURTIS NYEPrivate First Class · June 24, 1967
- ROBERT AMMON SNAVELYPrivate First Class · August 18, 1967
- GARY FRANK DISSINGERCorporal · October 27, 1967
- SOLOMON WILLIAM DEHARTPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH MATARAZZI JRCorporal · August 10, 1968
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.