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CHARLES AVERY DELLINGER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 29, 1947 – January 29, 1968
Service recordCharles Avery Dellinger, of Conover, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 59
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Conover, North Carolina (Catawba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 59
- ROBERT NELSON BARBERYSergeant · January 29, 1968
- HERBERT HAMBLY BUTT JRMajor · January 29, 1968
- RICHARD EMERSON DENNY JRPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- ROBERT BLAIR ENGLAND IIPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
From Conover
- REGINALD ALLAN MUNDYFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1967
- HARRY JAMES BOSTONSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- ROGER PRESBORN KELLERPrivate First Class · March 22, 1968
- VERNON EUGENE LAIL JRSpecialist Four · March 3, 1969
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.