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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles G Tauberman SR.

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CHARLES G TAUBERMAN SR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 19, 1935 – February 28, 1971

Service record

Charles G Tauberman SR, of Antioch, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 12

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radio Teletype Operator (05C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
November 19, 1935
Home of record
Antioch, Illinois (Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 28, 1971
Age
35
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1971; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 12

From Antioch

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.