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CHARLES PIERRE GIRARD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 9, 1949 – March 9, 1969
Service recordCharles Pierre Girard, of Pasadena, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 88
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Pasadena, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive of the war. 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 30W, Line 88
- LINDELL FRANCISPrivate First Class · March 9, 1969
- JAMES MARTIN GONANOPrivate First Class · March 9, 1969
- JOSEPH GRASSIA JRPrivate First Class · March 9, 1969
- ROBERT STANLEY GREGGSpecialist Four · March 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL JOHN ONEILLFirst Lieutenant · Panel 30W, Line 93
- DENNIS ALAN ORMONDSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 94
- DAVID ALLAN POLEYChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 30W, Line 94
From Pasadena
- WILLIAM JOSEPH PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- JAMES LOUIS CARTERColonel · February 3, 1966
- VERNON EDWARD BRACKINSLance Corporal · August 29, 1966
- MARK NIGGOL ENARIFirst Lieutenant · December 2, 1966
- FRED DOUGLAS HARDYLance Corporal · December 8, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH SANCHEZMaster Sergeant · March 6, 1967
- DANIEL LYNN KIRSTEINPetty Officer Third Class · May 8, 1967
- THOMAS REGINALD RASCHELSpecialist Five · June 17, 1967
- JERRY EUGENE GUERRASpecialist Five · August 28, 1967
- ROGER CLARKE ROSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 8, 1967
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.