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CHARLES LUDWIG
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 11, 1937 – March 5, 1968
Service recordCharles Ludwig, of Queens Village, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 11, 1937
- Home of record
- Queens Village, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 9
- RICHARD SMITH LOWESWarrant Officer 1 · March 5, 1968
- ROBERT DAVID MCMILLIANSergeant · March 5, 1968
- BRIAN THOMAS MURRAYSpecialist Four · March 5, 1968
- GEORGE D NOVAKOVICSpecialist Four · March 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DEAN LAVERNE DALBERGPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 5
From Queens Village
- ARTHUR CAVANAGHSpecialist Four · January 11, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN JANKOWSKISpecialist Four · July 13, 1966
- DONALD MILLSStaff Sergeant · March 25, 1967
- RICHARD MARTIN SAMORAYCorporal · August 14, 1968
- GARY PHILIP SINCLAIRPrivate First Class · December 21, 1969
- DOUGLAS GERALD MACNEILFirst Lieutenant · April 7, 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.