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CHARLES MCKINLEY HAIRSTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 24, 1948 – March 10, 1968
Service recordCharles McKinley Hairston, of Jenkinjones, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 7
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Jenkinjones, West Virginia (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1968; four of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Long An 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 44E, Line 7
- FRANK GERALD GOELZPetty Officer Third Class · March 10, 1968
- JACK LEROY GOODWINSpecialist Five · March 10, 1968
- HUBERT HASKEL GORDON JRPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANK GREENSpecialist Four · March 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ARTHUR HOOKERStaff Sergeant · Panel 44E, Line 8
- DURWOOD BERT LOMBARDSpecialist Five · Panel 44E, Line 9
- RICHARD ALBERT MARSHCorporal · Panel 44E, Line 9
- JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY IIICorporal · Panel 44E, Line 10
- RICHARD CHARLES WESTBERGPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 12
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.