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CHARLES EDWARD SUTHERLAND
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 19, 1948 – March 18, 1968
Service recordCharles Edward Sutherland, of St Ann, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 31
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 19, 1948
- Home of record
- St Ann, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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 45E, Line 31
- GEORGE LARRY STARKSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- JERROLD ALLEN SWITZERPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- GARY DOUGLAS UTZLance Corporal · March 18, 1968
- FRANK ENZER WEISSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
From St Ann
- GERALD WAYNE ZIYPrivate First Class · December 29, 1967
- ALAN JOSEPH ROBINSONCorporal · July 14, 1968
- CHARLES JACKSON WILSONLance Corporal · April 21, 1969
- LAWRENCE JOSEPH BUDZINSKISergeant · April 24, 1969
- ROBERT JAMES WIESECorporal · February 16, 1970
- LARRY DAVID HICKSSergeant · September 24, 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.