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CHARLES MAC DOUGLAS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 5, 1945 – March 22, 1967
Service recordCharles Mac Douglas, of Bloomington, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 5, 1945
- Home of record
- Bloomington, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 17
- JERRY LEE BELLLance Corporal · March 22, 1967
- KENNETH WAYNE BRENWALLSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- JAMES ANDREW CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- BLAIR EDWARD DENNISPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BILLY ELWOOD REGISTERPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 23
From Bloomington
- DENZIL DALE PETTITPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- MICHAEL O CROSSENLance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- BRADLEY ALLEN KINDERSpecialist Four · February 8, 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.