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CHARLES JACKSON BRITT
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 16, 1944 – March 30, 1972
Service recordCharles Jackson Britt, of Ferndale, Maryland, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1972, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 124
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 16, 1944
- Home of record
- Ferndale, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1972
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1972. In March 1972, 69 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in South Vietnam while the Easter Offensive was under way. On 30 March 1972, North Vietnam launched its largest offensive since 1968, attacking across the DMZ, toward An Lộc and into the Central Highlands. By then few U.S. ground troops remained; American advisers and air power fought alongside the South Vietnamese.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 124
- IRVING BURNS RAMSOWER IILieutenant Colonel · March 29, 1972
- WILLIAM ANTHONY TODDMaster Sergeant · March 29, 1972
- CHARLES JOSEPH WANZEL IIICaptain · March 29, 1972
- BARCLAY BINGHAM YOUNGMajor · March 29, 1972
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.