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CHARLES EDWARD HAZLIP
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 22, 1944 – October 29, 1968
Service recordCharles Edward Hazlip, of Polo, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 54
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Polo, Illinois (Ogle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 54
- JOSEPH EMERSON HEATHSpecialist Four · October 29, 1968
- JAMES D HUNTERPrivate First Class · October 29, 1968
- HERBERT NICHOLAS JOHNSONGunnery Sergeant · October 29, 1968
- GEORGE MICHAEL PRICEPrivate First Class · October 29, 1968
From Polo
- LARRY ALLEN MACKEYSpecialist Four · October 13, 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.