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RICHARD ALLAN WEAVER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 29, 1947 – November 29, 1968
Service recordRichard Allan Weaver, of Woodland Hills, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 8
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- November 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Woodland Hills, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 8
- THEODORE R CONLEY JRLance Corporal · November 29, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH TARANTOSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- WILLIAM MILLER VITALEFirst Lieutenant · November 29, 1968
- DOUGLAS LEROY WARNERPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
From Woodland Hills
- DAVID FRANK SHERRELLCorporal · June 6, 1967
- ROBERT THOMAS LOHMANPrivate First Class · August 8, 1967
- STEVEN EDWARD LEGLERSpecialist Four · October 3, 1967
- GERARD ANDRE LAVIGNEPrivate First Class · April 1, 1968
- TIMOTHY PAUL MCGUIREPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- JOHN HOWARD PRIESTHOFF IICorporal · September 22, 1968
- HERBERT KIRK SKINNERPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JEFFREY HOWARD FOULKEPrivate First Class · February 14, 1969
- CHARLES W WARRINGTON JRPrivate First Class · March 16, 1969
- MYRON WALDO BERGStaff Sergeant · April 8, 1970
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.