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MICHAEL DOUGLAS WEEKS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 22, 1947 – January 22, 1969
Service recordMichael Douglas Weeks, of Lake Oswego, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 62
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Lake Oswego, Oregon (Clackamas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1969; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 62
- GILTON WALTER JOHNSONSpecialist Four · January 22, 1969
- MARK ALLAN TAYLORPrivate First Class · January 22, 1969
- MICHAEL LEE WARNERSergeant · January 22, 1969
- JOHN FORREST WEAVERCorporal · January 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROGER CARL BANGERTCorporal · Panel 34W, Line 55
- KENNETH DUANE BROWNLEESpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 56
- CORNELIOUS P DUKELOW IIPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 57
- RAMON N HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 58
- RICKY LYNN WIKLESpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 59
From Lake Oswego
- DAVID BRUCE BRANDON JRPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- ANDREW JOHN ABRAMSONWarrant Officer 1 · October 23, 1969
- ROBERT ERNEST SHARPECorporal · January 15, 1971
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.