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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Edwin Huddle JR.

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CHARLES EDWIN HUDDLE JR

Captain · U.S. Army

May 11, 1935 – March 21, 1965

Service record

Charles Edwin Huddle JR, of Charleston, West Virginia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 97

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
May 11, 1935
Home of record
Charleston, West Virginia (Kanawha County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1965
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1965. In March 1965, 22 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 97

From Charleston

All 34 names from Charleston →

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.