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CHARLES EDWARD OWENS
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 17, 1949 – September 17, 1968
Service recordCharles Edward Owens, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 19
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43W, Line 19
- WILLIAM THOMAS PARKERCorporal · September 17, 1968
- RONALD JOSEPH POINTERPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- DOMINICK POLLASTROLance Corporal · September 17, 1968
- MICHAEL WAYNE POUSSONCorporal · September 17, 1968
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 1968
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.