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CHARLES HASKELL AYRES
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 12, 1945 – January 22, 1969
Service recordCharles Haskell Ayres, of Midway, Tennessee, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 55
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tank Unit Commander (1203)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Midway, Tennessee (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 55
- JOHN WESLEY VOWLESPrivate First Class · January 21, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES WHITESpecialist Four · January 21, 1969
- JAMES JOSEPH WILEYPrivate · January 21, 1969
- ROGER CARL BANGERTCorporal · January 22, 1969
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.