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CHARLES ALLEN COVEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 2, 1949 – May 10, 1970
Service recordCharles Allen Covey, of Vincennes, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 11
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 237 MED DET USARV
- Born
- July 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Vincennes, Indiana (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1970; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “237 MED DET USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 11
- LAWRENCE NEIL DEBOERSergeant · May 10, 1970
- JAMES EDWARD DEBREWCorporal · May 10, 1970
- TIMOTHY CALVIN DRAKESergeant First Class · May 10, 1970
- ALFRED JAMES GAIDISWarrant Officer 1 · May 10, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED JAMES GAIDISWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 10W, Line 11
- JOHN ALYN LARGENTSpecialist Four · Panel 10W, Line 12
- PHILLIP NICHOLAS SCHMITZFirst Lieutenant · Panel 10W, Line 15
From Vincennes
- BILLY WAYNE HEDGECorporal · November 22, 1965
- ROBERT JAMES ROSEPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD HAYNESStaff Sergeant · November 24, 1967
- JERRY EARL PRYSpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- BRUCE EDGAR STRATECorporal · February 7, 1968
- DICK DALE HAMILTONSergeant First Class · August 21, 1968
- WILLIAM DENNI MCALLISTERFirst Lieutenant · March 6, 1969
- JAMES WAYNE BEDELLCorporal · July 7, 1969
- THOMAS ANDREW HIGGINSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1969
- JAMES ANTHONY BAILEYCorporal · November 20, 1969
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.