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CHARLES EVERETT SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 1, 1940 – July 17, 1966
Service recordCharles Everett Smith, of Monroe, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 30
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Born
- May 1, 1940
- Home of record
- Monroe, North Carolina (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 17, 1966
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Stroke
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Read the history
Also on Panel 9E, Line 30
- DANIEL LEON MORTLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- STANLEY RICHARD SMITHLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- ANTHONY TREVISANOSpecialist Five · July 17, 1966
From Monroe
- ROBERT LEE CURLEE JRStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- DAVID MACKRAL JORDANLance Corporal · June 2, 1967
- JAMES WHITEFORD PRICE JRSpecialist Four · June 3, 1967
- RICHARD VAN HUGGINSCorporal · October 8, 1967
- PHILLIP WARD BROOMMajor · November 3, 1967
- HAYWOOD JOHNSON JRStaff Sergeant · May 6, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE LANEYPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
- RONALD LYNN HARKEYSergeant · February 22, 1969
- CHARLES DAVID ROGERSCaptain · March 11, 1969
- RUPERT A FUNDERBURK JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 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.