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CHARLES DON WITT
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
January 28, 1936 – May 24, 1967
Service recordCharles Don Witt, of Lubbock, Texas, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 24, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 99
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- January 28, 1936
- Home of record
- Lubbock, Texas (Lubbock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1967; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 99
- WILLIAM JOSEPH SCHERLE JRSpecialist Four · May 24, 1967
- COLERIDGE WILLIAMS JRStaff Sergeant · May 24, 1967
- KENNETH RONALD ABMEYERLance Corporal · May 25, 1967
- DANIEL ARTHUR PATTERSONLance Corporal · May 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROY LEE CASTLEBERRYPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 20E, Line 94
- TERRY FRANKLIN LEAZERFireman · Panel 20E, Line 96
- MICHAEL COURTNEY QUINNSeaman · Panel 20E, Line 98
From Lubbock
- WAYLEN LEE POWELLSpecialist Four · July 4, 1967
- JACK ALBERT BERRYLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- JOE LOVATO JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- JOSE LOUIS MORENOPrivate First Class · November 29, 1967
- WADE E THACKREY JRCorporal · February 15, 1968
- FREDRIC CECIL MCCASKILLPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- CLIFFORD WAYNE FIESZELLieutenant Colonel · September 30, 1968
- RAYMOND MARSHALL TANNERSpecialist Five · October 27, 1968
- JAMES SAMUEL ALLISONPrivate First Class · October 31, 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.