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VICTOR BARRY WEISSMAN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
September 6, 1947 – December 2, 1968
Service recordVictor Barry Weissman, of Wheeling, West Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 26
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Wheeling, West Virginia (Ohio County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 26
- JOSEPH AUSTIN HADLEYSecond Lieutenant · December 2, 1968
- FRANCIS PATTON TRUANCESpecialist Four · December 2, 1968
- RONALD ERNEST VANBARRIGERPrivate First Class · December 2, 1968
- WILLIAM MATTHEW WEBBPrivate First Class · December 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 27
From Wheeling
- JACK WEBB KLEIN SRStaff Sergeant · March 20, 1965
- MARTIN C KNAPPStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT DAVE HICKMANSergeant · December 10, 1965
- DAVID WALLACE WICKHAM IILieutenant · December 17, 1965
- CHARLES E ANDERSON JRCorporal · February 18, 1967
- GEORGE EDWARD MCCROBIECorporal · February 23, 1967
- GEORGE PAUL CUSTERLance Corporal · May 22, 1967
- JOSEPH RONALD KLUGPrivate First Class · June 20, 1967
- JOHN STANLEY DUPLAGASeaman · July 29, 1967
- RUSSELL FRANK MCLAUGHLINPrivate First Class · November 14, 1967
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.