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CHARLES DOUGLAS KING
Chief Master Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
March 29, 1946 – December 25, 1968
Service recordCharles Douglas King, of Muscatine, Iowa, served as a Chief Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on December 25, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 76
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Chief Master Sergeant (CMSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- DET 1 40 AER SQ
- Born
- March 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Muscatine, Iowa (Muscatine County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 25, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1968. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36W, Line 76
- SANDY LEE HOOKERSergeant · December 25, 1968
- BOBBY SPENCER MALICHISergeant First Class · December 25, 1968
- THOMAS FRANCIS ODEA JRLieutenant Colonel · December 25, 1968
- JIMMIE LEE ROBINSONPrivate First Class · December 25, 1968
From Muscatine
- LARRY WILLIAM BRENDELSpecialist Four · February 23, 1967
- GARY LEE BROOKHARTPrivate First Class · May 9, 1969
- ALBERT DEAN FOSTERSergeant First Class · May 10, 1969
- JERRY ARTHUR BUNNFirst Lieutenant · July 16, 1969
- WILLIAM MORRIS COZADCorporal · May 13, 1970
- LANNY ALLEN YORKFirst Lieutenant · September 16, 1972
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.