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CHARLES MICHAEL CORRY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 7, 1945 – April 15, 1968
Service recordCharles Michael Corry, of Washington, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 3
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Washington, Georgia (Wilkes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 50E, Line 3
- RICHARD GUNNAR ANDERSONPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- WALTER JOHN CHRUPCALAPetty Officer Third Class · April 15, 1968
- BENJAMIN STEPHEN FORDHAMFirst Lieutenant · April 15, 1968
- BILLIE JAMESSpecialist Four · April 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS RAY THORPESergeant · Panel 50E, Line 9
- DANIEL FLORE SANDOVALSpecialist Five · Panel 50E, Line 10
From Washington
- CHARLES MURRY SHELTONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1967
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.