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CHARLES QUINTEN POLK
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 22, 1949 – November 25, 1969
Service recordCharles Quinten Polk, of Lufkin, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 25, 1969, in North Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 67
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Freight Operations Clerk (3111)
- Born
- September 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Lufkin, Texas (Angelina County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 25, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1969. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 67
- NEIL EDWARD HARVEYCorporal · December 17, 1969
- GLENN ROBERT MANNINGCaptain · December 17, 1969
- BILLY JOE NEELYPrivate First Class · December 17, 1969
- MICHAEL THADDEUS SOLTYSLance Corporal · December 17, 1969
From Lufkin
- HOOVER MORRISSergeant First Class · November 12, 1965
- GEORGE EDWARD OVERSHINECorporal · September 29, 1967
- CLENZELL MORRISPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- EDDIE CLAYTON HARRISPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- WESLEY EUGENE HODGESCorporal · February 23, 1968
- BENNIE JOE SISSONPrivate First Class · March 22, 1968
- JOHN CLARK HURSTCaptain · July 13, 1968
- WAYDELL GETTERStaff Sergeant · August 22, 1968
- LARRY EUGENE RICKSSpecialist Four · December 1, 1968
- OTTIS EDWARD STRINGERLance Corporal · July 12, 1969
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.