The Wall › Panel 36W › Virginia › Charles Herbert Hodson JR
CHARLES HERBERT HODSON JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 11, 1936 – December 24, 1968
Service recordCharles Herbert Hodson JR, of Winchester, Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 24, 1968, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 72
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 11, 1936
- Home of record
- Winchester, Virginia (Winchester (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 24, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Tuyen Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 24, 1968; seven of them were lost in Tuyen Duc Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 72
- EVERETT FREDERICK COXSpecialist Five · December 24, 1968
- KENNETH ROY DEVORESpecialist Four · December 24, 1968
- BOBBY BRANCE EDWARDSMajor · December 24, 1968
- JIMMY CARROLL HESTERCorporal · December 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BOBBY BRANCE EDWARDSMajor · Panel 36W, Line 72
From Winchester
- LORING WILLIAM CARPER JRHospitalman · May 17, 1966
- UPTON FINLEY ASHLEYStaff Sergeant · November 3, 1966
- JERRY MALONE JENKINSSpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- JOHN FRANKLIN MORRISON JRPrivate First Class · December 30, 1967
- DONALD KEITH POWELLCorporal · August 21, 1968
- GREGORY JACKSON FRANKLINPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- ROBERT ALLAN WASHINGTONStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1969
- LAWRENCE EUGENE FLETCHERFirst Lieutenant · May 7, 1970
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.