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CHARLES BROOKS PFAFFMANN
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
December 30, 1944 – April 9, 1970
Service recordCharles Brooks Pfaffmann, of Killingworth, Connecticut, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 9, 1970, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 115
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VAW 116 USS CORAL SEA CVA 43
- Born
- December 30, 1944
- Home of record
- Killingworth, Connecticut (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1970. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VAW 116 USS CORAL SEA CVA 43”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 12W, Line 115
- JAMES JOSEPH PASTORE JRSpecialist Four · April 9, 1970
- WILLIE ROBERT RASCOE JRSergeant First Class · April 9, 1970
- CHARLES GEORGE SELMANCorporal · April 9, 1970
- WILLIAM HARRY SMITHLance Corporal · April 9, 1970
Same unit, same day
- BRIAN LEE BUSHNELLAirman · Panel 12W, Line 111
- ANDREW ANTHONY HORCHAR JRPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 12W, Line 111
- LARRY COLEMAN KNIGHTLieutenant · Panel 12W, Line 114
From Killingworth
- JACK HENRY CURRYPrivate First Class · December 23, 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.