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CHARLES DON BUCHANAN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 30, 1943 – May 19, 1969
Service recordCharles Don Buchanan, of Wise, Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 52
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 30, 1943
- Home of record
- Wise, Virginia (Wise County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 52
- RICHARD CARBONESpecialist Four · May 19, 1969
- JAMES CALVIN COCKERLSecond Lieutenant · May 19, 1969
- W K UTAH CREASONSpecialist Four · May 19, 1969
- WILLIE CECIL DAVISSpecialist Four · May 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD CARBONESpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 52
- DONALD LYNN KELLYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 24W, Line 55
From Wise
- BOYCE EUGENE LAWSONPrivate First Class · January 11, 1963
- MARVIN LEON WYATTSpecialist Four · June 17, 1968
- ARTHUR EUGENE MORGANPrivate First Class · September 5, 1969
- MICHAEL WAYNE HOPKINSLance Corporal · February 24, 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.