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ROBERT JOSEPH WIEDEMANN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 17, 1948 – March 25, 1968
Service recordRobert Joseph Wiedemann, of Gary, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 25
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Intelligence Analyst (96B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 191 MI DET 1 CAV DIV
- Born
- June 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Gary, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 25
- JIMMY JOE TESSADRIPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- FLOYD NICKOLAS THOMANSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
- HERBERT F WELTZ JRSpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
- BROADUS ALFRED WHITTPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
From Gary
- JOHN ROBERT ACKERMANPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- TOM WILLIE BROWNSergeant · December 4, 1965
- JACK ELSWORTH LOCKEPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- ROBERT LOPEZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1966
- JAMES LEE EMMARTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- RICHARD WAYNE MCGEECorporal · July 1, 1966
- VICTOR MORALESPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- JOHN PETER SKORO JRFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 1966
- JOHN GREEN DICKERSON IIIPrivate · October 5, 1966
- ANDREW JAMES ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
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.