HONOLULU, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Frederick C. Weyand, who commanded American forces in Vietnam during the final year of the Vietnam War, has died in Honolulu, authorities said. He was 93.
He died Wednesday at his home, The New York Times reported.
Weyand succeeded Gen. Creighton Abrams as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam July 1972, when most U.S. Army and Marine combat units had already been withdrawn from Vietnam, the newspaper said.
Weyand had been serving as a combat officer in Vietnam since 1966. He rose to command II Field Force, responsible for operation in the southern third of Vietnam, the Times said.
Under his command, the last American ground-combat unit departed Vietnam in August 1972.
Weyand had longstanding doubts about the war he was not afraid to voice, the newspaper said. In 1967 he told a CBS News reporter: "This war is unwinnable. We've reached a stalemate, and we should find a dignified way out."
After retirement from the Army in 1976, Weyand became a vice-president of First Hawaiian Bank in Honolulu until retiring from that position in 1982.
Weyand's wife Arline died in 2001. He is survived by his three children and five grandchildren.
