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CHARLES RANSOME RAINES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 29, 1950 – December 22, 1969
Service recordCharles Ransome Raines, of Newport, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 22, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 83
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 29, 1950
- Home of record
- Newport, Tennessee (Cocke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 83
- BRUCE ALLEN MCCORMICKSergeant · December 22, 1969
- GERALD E NIEWENHOUS JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 22, 1969
- PETER PAUL PARNELL JRWarrant Officer 1 · December 22, 1969
- JOHN NORMENT RANSONSpecialist Four · December 22, 1969
From Newport
- CHARLES CAMILLE ROBERTSLance Corporal · July 8, 1966
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.