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WAYNE ROBERT LEFEBER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 23, 1946 – April 9, 1968
Service recordWayne Robert Lefeber, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 3
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- March 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 3
- PHILLIP MEREDITH KIDDPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- BENJAMIN KAON KISSLINGCorporal · April 9, 1968
- LOUIS MICHAEL LANESergeant · April 9, 1968
- KARL WADE LAWSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.