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CHARLES DUANE SAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 22, 1946 – March 12, 1967
Service recordCharles Duane Saylor, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1967; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 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 16E, Line 67
- JOSEPH DANIEL ADRIANFirst Lieutenant · March 12, 1967
- STEPHEN FRANK BURLINGAMESpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
- HARLAND GENE CLAUSEN JRSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
- NILS ARDEN DRENNENPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GORDON RAY RIGHTLERPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 70
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- OSWALD CLAYTON SOUTH JRSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
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.