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KARL EDWIN WEBER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 15, 1950 – November 14, 1968
Service recordKarl Edwin Weber, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 14, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 69
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
- May 15, 1950
- Home of record
- Two Rivers, Wisconsin (Manitowoc County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 14, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date November 14, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 69
- JACKIE SHIRL UNDERWOODPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- FRANCIS CLAYBURN AKI JRSergeant · November 15, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS BIRCHIMCaptain · November 15, 1968
- WILLIAM ERNEST BROWNSpecialist Four · November 15, 1968
From Two Rivers
- THOMAS ALVIN SAGENPetty Officer Third Class · August 24, 1965
- ALLEN JOHN KAKUKPrivate First Class · August 9, 1966
- ROBERT PAUL RUMINSKILance Corporal · April 1, 1967
- WILLIAM CHARLES BEHRENSSergeant · January 31, 1968
- EDWARD JOSEPH BREFCZYNSKIMaster Sergeant · February 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.