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CHARLES LEE HOSKINS
Captain · U.S. Air Force
August 5, 1944 – February 16, 1971
Service recordCharles Lee Hoskins, of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on February 16, 1971, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 111
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 497 TFS 8 TFW
- Born
- August 5, 1944
- Home of record
- Shawnee Mission, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- February 16, 1971
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1971. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “497 TFS 8 TFW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while Operation Lam Son 719 was under way. In Lam Son 719 (February–March 1971), South Vietnamese troops drove into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, carried and supported by U.S. helicopters and aircraft; more than 100 U.S. helicopters were lost.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 5W, Line 111
- RICHARD WRIGHT ELLISONColonel · February 16, 1971
- MICHAEL RAY HUNTERSpecialist Four · February 16, 1971
- LESLIE LEROY KARNESSergeant First Class · February 16, 1971
- EVELYN FRANKLIN LANKFORDSergeant First Class · February 16, 1971
Same unit, same day
- RALPH NATHANIEL PATTILLOLieutenant Colonel · Panel 5W, Line 112
From Shawnee Mission
- RICHARD LYNN MOWREYLieutenant (junior grade) · December 14, 1966
- LARRY WYNN PETETTSecond Lieutenant · February 27, 1968
- LAWRENCE WALKER SCANLANPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- ROBERT ORAL GIRDNERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- GEORGE DAVIDSON STONEPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- CHARLES ROBERT BALESSpecialist Four · August 22, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE GLYNNPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- WILLIS ALBERT TOOMESSergeant · September 21, 1968
- JAMES GILBERT HUMPHREYSergeant · November 11, 1968
- LANNY JOHN WALLACEFirst Lieutenant · July 21, 1970
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.