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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Horton Eubank.

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CHARLES HORTON EUBANK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 17, 1948 – May 21, 1970

Service record

Charles Horton Eubank, of Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 75

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Communications Center Specialist (72B)
Born
December 17, 1948
Home of record
Chester Springs, Pennsylvania (Chester County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1970
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 75

From Chester Springs

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.