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CHARLES OTTO SPILLMAN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
October 11, 1935 – February 28, 1968
Service recordCharles Otto Spillman, of New Brighton, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 74
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Builder (BU)
- Unit (as recorded)
- CBMU 301 3 NC BDE
- Born
- October 11, 1935
- Home of record
- New Brighton, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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 41E, Line 74
- ALLAN DEAN MASTELLERSpecialist Four · February 28, 1968
- EMMETT CHARLES STANTONPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- THOMAS STEGMANLieutenant Commander · February 28, 1968
- JAMES ERNEST THOMASSergeant First Class · February 28, 1968
From New Brighton
- TERRILL GENE PETERSONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- ERLE LAWRENCE BJORKECaptain · October 15, 1967
- DARREL THOMAS SWANSONSpecialist Four · February 7, 1969
- PAUL ARTHUR NELSONStaff Sergeant · March 28, 1969
- PAUL ROBERT EDMONDPrivate First Class · June 9, 1969
- WARREN STUART HALLSecond Lieutenant · January 17, 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.