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CHARLES ALBON HINCKLEY
Chief Warrant Officer 4 · U.S. Air Force
July 6, 1911 – March 25, 1968
Service recordCharles Albon Hinckley, of Somerville, Massachusetts, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 4 in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 25, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 56. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 18
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO-4)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- July 6, 1911
- Home of record
- Somerville, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 56
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 18
- JOHN LAWRENCE HIGGINSSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
- ROY L JOHNSONSpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
- WALLACE B JOHNSON IIIPetty Officer Second Class · March 25, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSE SHORTSLEEVESSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
From Somerville
- THOMAS EDWARD MURRAYCorporal · December 29, 1965
- ROY JOHN HENDERSONPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- DANIEL BENJAMIN DUFFY JRCorporal · April 24, 1966
- WILLIAM DAVID HOLDENSergeant · February 16, 1967
- JOHN HERBERT SHALLAHPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
- CLARK ALAN MILLERSpecialist Four · March 16, 1967
- KENNETH LAWRENCE GREENEPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCRAEPrivate · August 9, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH MCNABBPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JOHN DONALD KENNE MACLEANSergeant · February 4, 1968
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.