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CHARLES HOWARD GRAY JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 21, 1941 – August 31, 1970
Service recordCharles Howard Gray JR, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1970, in Laos, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 27
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 21, 1941
- Home of record
- Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1970
- Age
- 29
- Country
- Laos
- 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 August 31, 1970. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7W, Line 27
- JAMES HOWARD HEPPLERCorporal · August 31, 1970
- CHARLES PHILLIP HUTTONSergeant · August 31, 1970
- HARRY CHARLES INMAN IIIFirst Lieutenant · August 31, 1970
- FREDERICK RUSSELL KILLMONCorporal · August 31, 1970
From Fayetteville
- DEMPSEY H WILLIAMS IIIFirst Lieutenant · March 9, 1965
- CHARLIE GRAY LEWISSergeant First Class · May 17, 1967
- WILLIAM HORNERStaff Sergeant · July 10, 1965
- THOMAS CARL BRONSONPrivate First Class · August 31, 1965
- ERNEST HAYWARDMaster Sergeant · October 25, 1965
- WILLIAM ANDERSON SULLIVANSergeant · November 6, 1965
- DAVID JOSEPH UNDERHILLSeaman Apprentice · April 15, 1966
- JACK RAY PRICEPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ALTON BERNARD MUNNPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- RALPH JOSEPH RENOMaster Sergeant · July 3, 1966
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.