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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Arthur Whalen.

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CHARLES ARTHUR WHALEN

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

October 21, 1945 – August 26, 1968

Service record

Charles Arthur Whalen, of Berry, Kentucky, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 46W · Line 36

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Automotive Mechanic (3516)
Born
October 21, 1945
Home of record
Berry, Kentucky (Harrison County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 26, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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53 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 46W, Line 36

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.