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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles James Evans.

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CHARLES JAMES EVANS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 5, 1945 – July 23, 1967

Service record

Charles James Evans, of Guyton, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 23, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 110

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Fire Support Specialist (13F)
Unit (as recorded)
C TRP 1 SQD 4 CAV 1 INF DIV
Born
August 5, 1945
Home of record
Guyton, Georgia (Effingham County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 23, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date July 23, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 110

From Guyton

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.