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CHARLES PAUL HEADLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 22, 1944 – February 17, 1968
Service recordCharles Paul Headley, of Madison, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 17, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Madison, Tennessee (Davidson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 17, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date February 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 140 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 75
- JAMES EARL HONEYCUTTPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- RONALD LENEAR MCELROYPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ALOYSIUS PAUL MCGONIGALMajor · February 17, 1968
- JAMES FREDRICK MEYER JRPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS OTIS MEEKPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 74
From Madison
- MICHAEL ALLEN JONESSergeant · September 28, 1967
- JACK MCCRARYChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- JAMES VAN HOWARDCorporal · October 30, 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.