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CHARLES DEAN STRINGFIELD
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 5, 1940 – December 10, 1968
Service recordCharles Dean Stringfield, of Harriman, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 10, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 79
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- January 5, 1940
- Home of record
- Harriman, Tennessee (Roane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 79
- THOMAS TODD CHAPMANPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- MELVIN E CLARKSpecialist Four · December 10, 1968
- ROLLAND EUGENE DARLING JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- DANA EDWARD DIEHLPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
From Harriman
- CLARENCE EDWARD BARNESSergeant · April 11, 1966
- EVERETT WILSON JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- ESTEL DENNY SPAKESSergeant First Class · March 12, 1968
- JERRY ROGER FERGUSONSergeant · June 13, 1968
- BRADLEY KEITH WATTSPrivate First Class · September 15, 1968
- RICHARD LEE PATTERSONFirst Lieutenant · May 29, 1969
- DONALD ROBERT MATHISSergeant · May 28, 1971
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.