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CHARLES MILTON WALLING
Major · U.S. Air Force
December 31, 1938 – August 8, 1966
Service recordCharles Milton Walling, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on August 8, 1966, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 119
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 557 TFS
- Born
- December 31, 1938
- Home of record
- Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 8, 1966
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1966; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “557 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 9E, Line 119
- DAVID LOUIS THORPEPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- CLAUDE FREDRICK WEIDERMANSpecialist Four · August 8, 1966
- JACK ALLEN WELCHPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- PATRICK EDWARD WYNNEMajor · August 8, 1966
Same unit, same day
- AADO KOMMENDANTMajor · Panel 9E, Line 114
From Phoenix
- DURWARD DEAN GOSNEYMajor · October 7, 1964
- CHARLES ALVA DALEMajor · June 9, 1965
- WILBURN DANIEL FELKINSCorporal · July 30, 1965
- LEE E ANDERSONSergeant · September 19, 1965
- DERRELL BLACKBUR JEFFORDSColonel · December 24, 1965
- JOHNNY HOWARD GODFREYCaptain · January 11, 1966
- GEORGE A HOAGLAND IIIStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- JACK LANDEN HIMESPrivate First Class · February 26, 1966
- ROY JOHN HIGGINS JRCorporal · March 5, 1966
- DARRELL LEE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
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.