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ROBERT PAUL WIESNETH
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
September 9, 1942 – September 11, 1969
Service recordRobert Paul Wiesneth, of Louisville, Nebraska, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 11, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 74
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- September 9, 1942
- Home of record
- Louisville, Nebraska (Cass County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1969; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 74
- FREDERICK WILHELMStaff Sergeant · September 11, 1969
- LEO JAMES BROUSSARD JRSpecialist Four · September 12, 1969
- JOSEPH WILLIAM COXCaptain · September 12, 1969
- STEPHEN ANTHONY DESANTISChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK WILHELMStaff Sergeant · Panel 18W, Line 74
From Louisville
- ROGER LLOYD SCHNEIDERWarrant Officer 1 · February 2, 1968
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.