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CHARLES PIERCE SPARKS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 6, 1938 – October 24, 1964
Service recordCharles Pierce Sparks, of Killeen, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1964, in Cambodia, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Supply Specialist (76K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- October 6, 1938
- Home of record
- Killeen, Texas (Bell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1964
- Age
- 26
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1964. In October 1964, 29 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 69
- EDWARD STEPHEN KRUKOWSKICaptain · October 24, 1964
- GLENN CHARLES DYERFirst Lieutenant · October 26, 1964
- WILLIAM CHARLES TOTHPrivate First Class · October 27, 1964
- EDWARD ALOYSIUS BLAKECaptain · October 29, 1964
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE WOODSStaff Sergeant · Panel 1E, Line 68
From Killeen
- NORMAN COLUMBUS WILLIAMSStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1965
- ALBERT EDWARD SOMBELONStaff Sergeant · May 15, 1966
- ARTHUR CECILIO AGUIRREStaff Sergeant · January 26, 1967
- ROY ROBERT BOOTHSpecialist Four · May 27, 1967
- LAMAR HAYES TEMPLECorporal · August 16, 1967
- JERRY EUGENE MAURERSpecialist Four · November 18, 1967
- THOMAS G BERNARDYSpecialist Four · January 2, 1968
- FLOYD BROWN SPENCER JRMajor · January 31, 1968
- ROBERT OLIVER WELLSSergeant · March 26, 1969
- CHARLES DAVID ALLEN JRCaptain · March 16, 1971
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.