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CHARLES CROCKETT HOWZE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 30, 1949 – December 2, 1969
Service recordCharles Crockett Howze, of Edgemoor, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 2, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 17
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Edgemoor, South Carolina (Chester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 2, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 17
- JOLLY J DAYStaff Sergeant · December 2, 1969
- WILLIAM CHARLES DUNLAPChief Warrant Officer 3 · December 2, 1969
- DONALD LEONARD GREIGERPrivate First Class · December 2, 1969
- JOHN CHARLES GUIREPrivate First Class · December 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RUSSELL THOMAS PICKERINGSecond Lieutenant · Panel 15W, Line 19
From Edgemoor
- LINDSAY CLINTON TURNERPrivate First Class · August 10, 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.