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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Scott Stillman Webber.

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SCOTT STILLMAN WEBBER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 23, 1946 – December 18, 1966

Service record

Scott Stillman Webber, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 60

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
May 23, 1946
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 18, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 60

Same unit, same day

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.