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CHARLES OAKES BAKER II
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
February 4, 1934 – June 15, 1968
Service recordCharles Oakes Baker II, of Cousins Island, Maine, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 22
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
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist (55D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- February 4, 1934
- Home of record
- Cousins Island, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 22
- JOHN WESLEY WRIGHTSpecialist Five · June 14, 1968
- JOHN VINCENT AKINPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- ERVIN LEWIS AUMANSergeant · June 15, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL BERTRAMPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
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.