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CHARLES NICHOLAS TREDINNICK
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 13, 1934 – January 29, 1968
Service recordCharles Nicholas Tredinnick, of Dallas, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 63
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 13, 1934
- Home of record
- Dallas, Pennsylvania (Luzerne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 63
- JOHN FRANCO RUIZSpecialist Four · January 29, 1968
- RICHARD SHANNON RUSSELLPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- STUART HAROLD THOMSONSergeant First Class · January 29, 1968
- JOSEPH GARY VOGRINECPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEE CRONEStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 58
- MICHAEL THOMAS MAHONEYSpecialist Five · Panel 35E, Line 61
- CHARLES EDWARD WHITESergeant Major · Panel 35E, Line 64
From Dallas
- JOSEPH JOHN CHISKOStaff Sergeant · June 9, 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.