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CHARLES DENNIS PEKNY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 17, 1946 – July 25, 1968
Service recordCharles Dennis Pekny, of Lombard, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 25, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Lombard, Illinois (Du Page County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 9
- IRVIN WILLIAM MOSLEYPrivate First Class · July 25, 1968
- CHARLES H PETERSDORF JRCorporal · July 25, 1968
- GREGORY MICHAEL ROUSELance Corporal · July 25, 1968
- JACK RICHARD SANBORNSpecialist Four · July 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CARSON GREGORY CULLETONSergeant · Panel 50W, Line 5
From Lombard
- WILLIAM ROSS ROMANOPrivate First Class · October 12, 1965
- RICHARD PHILLIP ROBBLEYSpecialist Four · November 11, 1965
- DIETER HANS BURGERStaff Sergeant · September 5, 1967
- WILLIAM PERRY LYONSSpecialist Four · July 4, 1970
- THOMAS FOREST HERRINGCorporal · December 17, 1970
- JOHN SIMMONS WEAVERCorporal · January 16, 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.