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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Libert James Weldon JR.

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LIBERT JAMES WELDON JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 28, 1941 – November 30, 1967

Service record

Libert James Weldon JR, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 19

Position of Panel 31E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Petroleum Storage Specialist (56C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
July 28, 1941
Home of record
Rock Hill, South Carolina (York County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1967
Age
26
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 19

From Rock Hill

All 14 names from Rock Hill →

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.