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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 James Huzicko.

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CHARLES JAMES HUZICKO

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 23, 1946 – June 25, 1968

Service record

Charles James Huzicko, of Struthers, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 55W · Line 35

Position of Panel 55W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
February 23, 1946
Home of record
Struthers, Ohio (Mahoning County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 25, 1968
Age
22
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1968; ten of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 55W, Line 35

Same unit, same day

From Struthers

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.