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CHARLES EDWARD DENNY
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 4, 1939 – September 21, 1967
Service recordCharles Edward Denny, of Brookfield, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 21, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 100
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
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Born
- August 4, 1939
- Home of record
- Brookfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 100
- TROY WESLEY COKLEYPrivate First Class · September 21, 1967
- JOSEPH ANTHONY COOMESPetty Officer Third Class · September 21, 1967
- JERRY K COVEYSpecialist Four · September 21, 1967
- JIMMY DOUGLAS CURRYCorporal · September 21, 1967
From Brookfield
- MICHAEL PETERSPrivate First Class · October 27, 1967
- ANTON JAMES JECMEN JRPrivate First Class · June 23, 1969
- DANIEL JOSEPH DAVIDENKOConstructionman · November 10, 1969
- WAYNE STEVE ZACHSpecialist Four · February 23, 1970
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.