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CHARLES EUGENE BRENNAN
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 17, 1948 – September 6, 1967
Service recordCharles Eugene Brennan, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 6, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 6
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- January 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Waynesboro, Pennsylvania (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1967; 47 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 6
- HAROLD STANLEY BERNLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- JOSEPH KEITH BRADLEYLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- JOHN GRANVILLE CALLLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS CAROTASergeant · September 6, 1967
From Waynesboro
- HARRY LEE ECCARDStaff Sergeant · April 19, 1967
- ERNEST LEROY ROWESergeant · September 25, 1968
- STEPHEN BRIAN PUGHCorporal · September 29, 1968
- THOMAS VICTOR PILSONStaff Sergeant · February 26, 1969
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.