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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles F Deamaral JR.

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CHARLES F DEAMARAL JR

Major · U.S. Army

September 6, 1931 – October 4, 1965

Service record

Charles F Deamaral JR, of Carmel, California, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on October 4, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 105

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
C TRP 1 SQD 9 CAV 1 CAV DIV
Born
September 6, 1931
Home of record
Carmel, California (Monterey County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 4, 1965
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date October 4, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 105

From Carmel

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.