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CHARLES DAVID BRASIER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 4, 1949 – July 14, 1969
Service recordCharles David Brasier, of Seminole, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1969, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 115
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Supplyman (76A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Seminole, Oklahoma (Seminole County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 14, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1969; two of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21W, Line 115
- DAVID EARL YATESFirst Lieutenant · July 13, 1969
- WILLIAM DAVID ALBERTPrivate First Class · July 14, 1969
- EDWIN CHARLES ALLENPrivate First Class · July 14, 1969
- ERNEST DOOM BURNSChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 14, 1969
- MICHAEL GENE FREYPrivate First Class · July 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THEODORE MENDEZ SRStaff Sergeant · Panel 21W, Line 119
From Seminole
- CHARLES EDWARD OLIVERPrivate First Class · July 23, 1967
- JOHN WAYNE TRACYStaff Sergeant · September 18, 1969
- KENNETH DEWAYNE HARJOSpecialist Four · November 18, 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.