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RONALD LEE WEAVER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 9, 1946 – February 23, 1968
Service recordRonald Lee Weaver, of Quakertown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Quakertown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia 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 41E, Line 5
- GARY WILFORD THORPECorporal · February 23, 1968
- RODOLFO ARTURO VASQUEZPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- ALFONZIA WILLIAMSSergeant · February 23, 1968
- TINEY W WINTERSSergeant · February 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND RONALD SPROULStaff Sergeant · Panel 41E, Line 3
From Quakertown
- ATIS KARLIS LIELMANISFirst Lieutenant · November 24, 1963
- DONALD RICHARD KEMMERERMajor · August 6, 1967
- GARY DAVID HOLLANDPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- PHILLIP DANIEL MILLERLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- JOHN RUSSELL MILLIKANSergeant · August 18, 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.