The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Gale Dusing.

The Wall › Panel 3E › South Carolina › Charles Gale Dusing

CHARLES GALE DUSING

Chief Master Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

April 11, 1928 – October 31, 1965

Service record

Charles Gale Dusing, of Charleston, South Carolina, served as a Chief Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on October 31, 1965, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 8

Position of Panel 3E 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.

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Chief Master Sergeant (CMSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mechanical Superintendent (54790)
Unit (as recorded)
6250 SPT SQ
Born
April 11, 1928
Home of record
Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston County)

Casualty

Date of loss
October 31, 1965
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Captured / prisoner of war
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1965; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 8

From Charleston

All 75 names from Charleston →

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.