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STEPHEN LENN WEIGT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 14, 1947 – March 21, 1969
Service recordStephen Lenn Weigt, of Cloverdale, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 6
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 584 ENG CO USARV
- Born
- October 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Cloverdale, California (Sonoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “584 ENG CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 6
- JAMES ALFRED WALKER JRPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- CHARLES FRANKLIN WHITESpecialist Four · March 21, 1969
- RONNIE RUDOLPH WHITECorporal · March 21, 1969
- THOMAS WILLIAM WHITTENCorporal · March 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT SCOTT DAVISSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 97
From Cloverdale
- DUANE ROY BAUMGARDNERSpecialist Four · June 2, 1969
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.