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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Daniel Maxson.

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CHARLES DANIEL MAXSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 5, 1947 – December 5, 1967

Service record

Charles Daniel Maxson, of Rhodes, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 41

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
July 5, 1947
Home of record
Rhodes, Michigan (Gladwin County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 41

From Rhodes

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.