DALE ALLEN WENBURG

Officer Rank: Military Police
Memorial Panel: 40-E: 25
Department: U.S. Department of the Army
End of Watch: June 19, 1977
Cause: DROW
Age: 19
Years of Service: 1
Description: Officer Wenburg, detailed to Fort Sherman in the Panama Canal Zone, was on duty on military patrol. Officer Wenburg responded to an emergency call, along with an Army paramedic and a fire fighter, regarding a boater who had crashed into the rocks on the Caribbean shore. As the three were climbing down the rocks to search for the boater, a wave crashed into them, knocking them into the sea where they all drowned.
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