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CHARLES FREDERICK ABENE
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
November 18, 1930 – November 19, 1968
Service recordCharles Frederick Abene, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 19, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 9
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
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ordnance Officer (2002)
- Born
- November 18, 1930
- Home of record
- Bloomfield, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1968
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 9
- IGNACIO SANCHEZSergeant First Class · November 18, 1968
- ELIE EDWARD SWARTZLANDERStaff Sergeant · November 18, 1968
- DWIGHT JOSEPH TAYLORLance Corporal · November 18, 1968
- HERMAN W O WRIGHT JRLance Corporal · November 18, 1968
From Bloomfield
- WILLIAM ERNEST SWAYKOSSpecialist Four · January 23, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD MYERSLance Corporal · January 26, 1967
- THOMAS MICHAEL MCLAUGHLINCorporal · July 7, 1967
- RAYMOND WILBERT FRITZ JRSergeant · October 4, 1967
- THOMAS ROBERT BOYDENPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- MICHAEL BERNARD CERVERASpecialist Four · February 3, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANCIS BURNHAMPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JOSEPH OLESON JRFirst Lieutenant · June 9, 1968
- ROBERT GERALD DODSONFirst Lieutenant · July 7, 1968
- CHESTER COSGROVELance Corporal · November 17, 1968
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.