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CHARLES CLARENCE WALKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 25, 1947 – March 29, 1969
Service recordCharles Clarence Walker, of Eufaula, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 87
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Eufaula, Alabama (Barbour County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 87
- ANTHONY GENE HARNESSSpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
- WAYNE ROBERT SWANPrivate First Class · March 29, 1969
- KENNETH HENRY VISINTINCorporal · March 29, 1969
- RICHARD ALLEN WHITESergeant · March 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE F REYNOLDS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 85
From Eufaula
- BILLY T HATFIELDCaptain · July 13, 1964
- JERDY ALBERT WRIGHT JRColonel · October 31, 1965
- JAMES DAVID SUGGSPrivate First Class · November 18, 1967
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.