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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Anthony Jamack.

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CHARLES ANTHONY JAMACK

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 21, 1930 – September 28, 1967

Service record

Charles Anthony Jamack, of Edgewood, Maryland, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27E · Line 24

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Welder (44C)
Unit (as recorded)
137 CO 19 ENG BN USARV
Born
February 21, 1930
Home of record
Edgewood, Maryland (Harford County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 28, 1967
Age
37
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “137 CO 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 27E, Line 24

From Edgewood

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.