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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 Leonard Peteet.

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CHARLES LEONARD PETEET

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 17, 1940 – January 31, 1966

Service record

Charles Leonard Peteet, of Kaufman, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 125

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
September 17, 1940
Home of record
Kaufman, Texas (Kaufman County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 31, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 131 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 125

Same unit, same day

From Kaufman

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.