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CHARLES H SANDBERG
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 9, 1937 – May 13, 1968
Service recordCharles H Sandberg, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 2
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 9, 1937
- Home of record
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; eight of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 2
- WAYNE RICHARDSPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- KEVIN HENRY ROSSPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- ROBERT EARL SALMELACorporal · May 13, 1968
- NELSON SANTIAGO-APONTESpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD DALE MCGOVERNPrivate First Class · Panel 59E, Line 28
- KENNETH LEE OLSONSpecialist Four · Panel 59E, Line 28
From Philadelphia
- MEIR ENGELLieutenant Colonel · December 16, 1964
- MATTHEW N HARRIS JRMaster Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- ALLEN CONRAD HERTZFirst Lieutenant · June 6, 1965
- MILO BENETT STIBBINSSpecialist Five · June 11, 1965
- JOSEPH PATRICK GRUGANCorporal · June 26, 1965
- ROWLAND JOSEPH ADAMOLICorporal · August 18, 1965
- FRANK AMOS HENISSPrivate First Class · September 7, 1965
- EARL CHARLES WILLOUGHBYChief Master Sergeant · September 7, 1965
- WILLIAM A MITCHELL IIPetty Officer Third Class · September 12, 1965
- WILLIAM GREGORY MAURONEPrivate First Class · September 30, 1965
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.