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CHARLES EMANUEL WATKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 16, 1948 – December 14, 1966
Service recordCharles Emanuel Watkins, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 14, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 46
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
- April 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1966; ten of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 46
- RANDALL ALLEN VANATTAPrivate First Class · December 14, 1966
- KENNETH WILLIAM WAWERSIKPrivate First Class · December 14, 1966
- CLAUDE DAVID WILSON JRLieutenant Commander · December 14, 1966
- JERRY BARBER WILSONSpecialist Four · December 14, 1966
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.