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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Alton Williamson.

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CHARLES ALTON WILLIAMSON

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 7, 1925 – June 25, 1965

Service record

Charles Alton Williamson, of Greenwood, West Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 19

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Dail/Manual Central Office Repairer (36H)
Born
December 7, 1925
Home of record
Greenwood, West Virginia (Doddridge County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 25, 1965
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Other Weapons

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 19

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.