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CHARLES DENNIS BOYER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 29, 1940 – June 21, 1968
Service recordCharles Dennis Boyer, of Trumansburg, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 11
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 29, 1940
- Home of record
- Trumansburg, New York (Tompkins County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 55W, Line 11
- CHARLES PETER BARNESCorporal · June 21, 1968
- JOHNNY DALE CASEYSpecialist Four · June 21, 1968
- RICHARD MORRI CHAMBERLAINSergeant · June 21, 1968
- UDELL CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · June 21, 1968
From Trumansburg
- HAROLD ROBERT VOORHEISSergeant First Class · August 23, 1968
- FRED WILLIAM CARPENTERCaptain · October 26, 1968
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.