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CHARLES LEE SMALLING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 29, 1949 – April 30, 1970
Service recordCharles Lee Smalling, of Lafayette, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1970, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 77
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Tennessee (Macon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1970; seven of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 77
- ROBERT JOSEPH SHANNONSergeant · April 30, 1970
- JOHN RAYMOND SMITHChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 30, 1970
- DAVID WALDEN STATONSergeant · April 30, 1970
- LEON ANTHONY TETKOSKISergeant First Class · April 30, 1970
Same unit, same day
- LARRY KURT KAISERStaff Sergeant · Panel 11W, Line 74
- DONALD RALPH LEDLIECorporal · Panel 11W, Line 75
- LUIS ADRIAN SANTELLANOSergeant · Panel 11W, Line 75
From Lafayette
- JIMMY DALE HESSONSpecialist Four · January 21, 1967
- HALQUA DALE CLIBURNStaff Sergeant · June 26, 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.