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CHARLES ALVIN DIXON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 12, 1946 – December 10, 1968
Service recordCharles Alvin Dixon, of Palm Harbor, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 80
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Palm Harbor, Florida (Pinellas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 80
- FREDDIE JUNIOR DOBBINSPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN EDERSpecialist Four · December 10, 1968
- JAMES EUGENE FARROWCorporal · December 10, 1968
- DEXTER NUNTON GAMBLE JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIE GENE ALDRIDGEPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 78
- JOHN PATRICK MELOYSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 82
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.