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CHARLES DENNIS BARTLETT
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 22, 1942 – August 8, 1968
Service recordCharles Dennis Bartlett, of Rockland, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 28
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 22, 1942
- Home of record
- Rockland, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 8, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 28
- MARSHALL DAVID WOLFORDCorporal · August 7, 1968
- FRANK DAVID ADAMSPrivate First Class · August 8, 1968
- RONALD DEAN BUSBYSergeant · August 8, 1968
- LEE TILSON CLARKECorporal · August 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEE HIGBEECaptain · Panel 49W, Line 29
- WILLIAM SAMUEL IRBYSergeant · Panel 49W, Line 30
- ELIAS CASTRO JURADO JRSpecialist Five · Panel 49W, Line 31
- DICKIE LYNN LEACHSpecialist Four · Panel 49W, Line 31
- RONALD LEE NOLDNERCorporal · Panel 49W, Line 32
- RICHARD ARTHUR OVAITTWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 49W, Line 33
From Rockland
- JAMES EDWARD MCCUEPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- BRUCE EDWIN JONESCorporal · February 25, 1968
- JOHN MARTIN BURKECorporal · March 20, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER JOHN BEANSpecialist Four · June 9, 1969
- JAMES MASON KELLERPrivate First Class · May 5, 1970
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.