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CHARLES JOHN MURPHY JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 19, 1946 – April 14, 1966
Service recordCharles John Murphy JR, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 113
- JAMMIE JAY LANIERPrivate First Class · April 14, 1966
- BURTON KYLE MCCORDCaptain · April 14, 1966
- DENNIS LEE REEVESSergeant · April 14, 1966
- HOWARD EARL ROTHRING JRPrivate · April 14, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS LEE REEVESSergeant · Panel 6E, Line 113
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.