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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles E Aronhalt JR.

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CHARLES E ARONHALT JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 17, 1942 – May 18, 1967

Service record

Charles E Aronhalt JR, of Cumberland, Maryland, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 20

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 17, 1942
Home of record
Cumberland, Maryland (Allegany County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 18, 1967
Age
24
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 28 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Cumberland

All 29 names from Cumberland →

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.