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CHARLES ANDREW OLSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 1, 1946 – November 22, 1968
Service recordCharles Andrew Olson, of Lanark, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 37
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 35 ENG BN 34 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- June 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Lanark, Illinois (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 37
- DAVID MARTIN MISZEWSKIPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
- THEODORE MOSTOWSKIChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 22, 1968
- RONALD JAMES PANICCIACorporal · November 22, 1968
- ANDREW ANDY RUIZCorporal · November 22, 1968
From Lanark
- ALLEN LAWRENCE MUMMERTSpecialist Four · February 8, 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.