D Company Contact — June 5, 1968 (YD325393)
June 5, 1968 — YD325393
Research stub. Built from a single secondary source (a veteran-transcribed company daily journal). The casualty tie to SGT Jacob Weldin below is a candidate identification, not a confirmed one.
D Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry received small-arms fire at 1615 hours on June 5, 1968, at grid YD325393. A man was wounded at 1745 and died of his wounds at 1755. His body was recovered at 1945, and the company pulled back. The journal gives no enemy unit identification for this contact beyond the small-arms fire itself.
The candidate match
SGT Jacob Robinson Weldin's roster date of death is June 6, 1968 — one day after this action. That one-day offset is the pattern seen elsewhere in this source: the company journal was kept in the rear, off delayed field reporting, so a casualty's administratively recorded date can trail the actual date of action by a day or more. This is also the only single-casualty D Company action in the transcribed journal close to Weldin's date of death, which is what makes it a plausible, though unconfirmed, match. Virtual Wall independently records his cause of death as hostile fire, gun or small arms, in Quang Tri Province — consistent with this action's mechanism and setting, though it does not by itself resolve the one-day date offset. See Jacob Weldin for the full profile.
An open reconciliation question
The review built from this journal flags both this event and the June 4 bunker-complex contact as open questions: three roster deaths that week (Weldin, Winner, and — at a wider 7-day offset — Wheeler) sit close enough in time to both single-KIA events that the correct pairing cannot be determined from date alone. This page and June 4 record the circumstantial reasoning for each candidate pairing without forcing a resolution.
Next source needed
The 2/8 Cav daily staff journal (NARA RG 472, 5-6 June 1968) would confirm the casualty by name.
If you served with D Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry in early June 1968, we'd like to hear from you. A contact on June 5, 1968 cost the company one man. Any memory of this action, or of SGT Jacob Weldin, helps complete the record.
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