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CHARLES G VANDER HEYDEN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 12, 1947 – August 21, 1968
Service recordCharles G Vander Heyden, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 24
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 24
- DANIEL EDWARD WARKCorporal · August 21, 1968
- EDWARD TYRONE WESTLance Corporal · August 21, 1968
- JOHNNY LAVERNE WHITEAKERCorporal · August 21, 1968
- MARVIN REX YOUNGStaff Sergeant · August 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN IMBACH IIISpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 19
From Oshkosh
- ORLAND ORRIN BEARWALDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1965
- KENNETH BRUCE HAWLEYCorporal · August 12, 1966
- PAUL EDWARD MANSKEPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS DOBISHPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- DONALD ROY LASTSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT FISCHERSergeant · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN MEHNEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- JAMES JEROME LINDSergeant · January 5, 1968
- CHRISTIAN ALAN LANGENFELDPrivate First Class · January 27, 1968
- STEVEN LYNN ZOBELLance Corporal · May 21, 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.