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CHARLES D MAXWELL
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 15, 1930 – January 12, 1967
Service recordCharles D Maxwell, of Bowdon, Georgia, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · 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
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 15, 1930
- Home of record
- Bowdon, Georgia (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 17
- CLAYTON CHARLES KEMP JRPetty Officer Third Class · January 12, 1967
- BILLY W MCKEELStaff Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- WAYNE CONRAD REINECKEPetty Officer Third Class · January 12, 1967
- RENE REYNOSOSpecialist Four · January 12, 1967
From Bowdon
- JAMES ARTHUR PRESTONChief Master Sergeant · May 15, 1966
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.