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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Manuel Andujar.

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CHARLES MANUEL ANDUJAR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 3, 1934 – June 13, 1969

Service record

Charles Manuel Andujar, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1969, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 40

Position of Panel 22W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
July 3, 1934
Home of record
Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 13, 1969
Age
34
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 40

Same unit, same day

From Newark

All 110 names from Newark →

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.