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CHARLES E SHAW
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 2, 1946 – March 30, 1968
Service recordCharles E Shaw, of Abingdon, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Abingdon, Virginia (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 17
- DENNIS MICHAEL POTEATStaff Sergeant · March 30, 1968
- GERALD ANTHONY SCHIROCorporal · March 30, 1968
- AUTHOR C SMITHLance Corporal · March 30, 1968
- KENNETH ROMAINE TOTTEN JRPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK KEVIN BURKECorporal · Panel 47E, Line 9
- PETER JOSEPH GALLOFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47E, Line 10
- GEORGE EDWARD GRUBBSCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 11
- BERT AUSTIN KEELERSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 12
- JAMES EARL MORSECorporal · Panel 47E, Line 14
- DENNIS MICHAEL POTEATStaff Sergeant · Panel 47E, Line 17
- STEPHAN MAX WIGGINSSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 18
- WILBUR LEO WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 18
From Abingdon
- ROBERT MORRIS COOKEPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- JAMES DAVID ROARKPetty Officer Second Class · November 12, 1967
- HENRY GLEAVES CRIGGERCorporal · November 15, 1967
- LEONARD HARRISON SNEAD JRPrivate First Class · January 11, 1968
- JAMES PERRY SINGLETONSergeant · March 8, 1968
- GEORGE JOSE COXStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM WHITTENCorporal · March 21, 1969
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.