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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 Lee Hauschildt.

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CHARLES LEE HAUSCHILDT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 16, 1947 – December 8, 1967

Service record

Charles Lee Hauschildt, of Red Wing, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 65

Position of Panel 31E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
July 16, 1947
Home of record
Red Wing, Minnesota (Goodhue County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 8, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 65

Same unit, same day

From Red Wing

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.