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CHARLES DALE FLOOD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 21, 1949 – March 10, 1968
Service recordCharles Dale Flood, of Ridgeville, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tubine Engine Drive/Generator Repairer (52F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- March 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Ridgeville, Ohio (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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 44E, Line 6
- ROBERT EDMUND COCHRANStaff Sergeant · March 10, 1968
- FORBIS PIPKIN DURANT JRLance Corporal · March 10, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM EAGLESONCorporal · March 10, 1968
- GEORGE FREDERICK EDWARDSLance Corporal · March 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MIKE ESPINOSAPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 5
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.