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RAYMOND DOUGLAS WEISS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 21, 1946 – December 14, 1968
Service recordRaymond Douglas Weiss, of Garden Grove, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 24
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Garden Grove, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 24
- JOSEPH HENRY HANKS IIILance Corporal · December 14, 1968
- OSCAR ENRIQUE SANABIAPrivate First Class · December 14, 1968
- ABRAHAM TRUJILLO-TRUJILLOSpecialist Four · December 14, 1968
- GARY ALLEN WARNERPrivate First Class · December 14, 1968
From Garden Grove
- CARROLL MONROE BIERMAN JRCorporal · June 4, 1965
- ERNEST DARRELL MITCHELLPrivate First Class · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- MICHAEL ROY NELSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
- HARVEY RICHARD SANDERSCorporal · May 12, 1967
- JAMES PATRICK FITZSIMMONSLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- JON ROY HONRATHPrivate First Class · August 17, 1967
- ALLAN GEORGE KALFASLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- GARY LEE BARKERSergeant · October 17, 1967
- DENNIS REX ESTESPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
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.