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CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 2, 1944 – February 6, 1968
Service recordCharles Edward Phillips, of Lansing, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 66
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Lansing, North Carolina (Ashe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37E, Line 66
- LOREN LEE PAMPELPrivate · February 6, 1968
- WALTER THAXTON PANNELLSergeant · February 6, 1968
- JOHN JAMES PETRILLOSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
- KARL WALTER POSTSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE BROWNSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 50
- RONALD LEE KOCHPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 60
- HAROLD GENE SHIRLEYMaster Sergeant · Panel 37E, Line 69
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.