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CHARLES CLIFFORD MITCHEM
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 2, 1938 – February 6, 1968
Service recordCharles Clifford Mitchem, of Quantico, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Chuong Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 2, 1938
- Home of record
- Quantico, Virginia (Prince William County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Chuong Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chuong Thien Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Chuong Thien Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 63
- RONALD EDWARDS MORRISLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- MICHAEL MULLERVYPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- JOHN LYLE MURPHYLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- FRED LAMARR SALYERPetty Officer Third Class · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD WALDREN CRUMMajor · Panel 37E, Line 53
- CHARLES W LOLLISMajor · Panel 37E, Line 61
From Quantico
- RICHARD WOODROW YATESHospitalman · October 22, 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.