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CHARLES EDWARD WHITE
Sergeant Major · U.S. Army
May 18, 1933 – January 29, 1968
Service recordCharles Edward White, of Bessemer, Alabama, served as a Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 29, 1968, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 64
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant Major (SGM)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 18, 1933
- Home of record
- Bessemer, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 29, 1968
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 64
- DANNY A WEBERSpecialist Four · January 29, 1968
- HAROLD HUGH WELCHCorporal · January 29, 1968
- WILLIAM EDMOND WHITE IIICorporal · January 29, 1968
- JOHN PETER ZIELINSKISpecialist Four · January 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEE CRONEStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 58
- MICHAEL THOMAS MAHONEYSpecialist Five · Panel 35E, Line 61
- CHARLES NICHOLAS TREDINNICKSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 63
From Bessemer
- ROY MARVIN HITT JRSergeant · November 4, 1965
- CORDELL SPENCERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- MACK ARTHUR WAREPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY LAGRANDStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OAKESPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ELIJAH DANIEL JRStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1966
- MATTHEW WAREStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1966
- THOMAS C EVANSStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1967
- WILLIAM HORACE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1967
- LOUIS COLSTON JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
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.