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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 Joseph Dickey.

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CHARLES JOSEPH DICKEY

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 9, 1941 – July 7, 1968

Service record

Charles Joseph Dickey, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 53W · Line 33

Position of Panel 53W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
October 9, 1941
Home of record
Lancaster, New Hampshire (Coos County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 7, 1968
Age
26
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 53W, Line 33

Same unit, same day

From Lancaster

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.