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CHARLES RATES LEWIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 13, 1944 – February 16, 1967
Service recordCharles Rates Lewis, of Owensboro, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 47
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Owensboro, Kentucky (Daviess County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1967; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 47
- ANASTACIO HERNANDEZ BELTRANSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- LEE LEWISSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- ROY CHARLES LITTLEHALESPrivate First Class · February 16, 1967
- MARLOW MARTIN LOECKERSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROY CHARLES LITTLEHALESPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 47
- GARY CHARLES RICHARDSPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 51
- ROBERT FRANK VERNESPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 52
From Owensboro
- CHARLES ERVIN SHELTONColonel · April 29, 1965
- RANDELL GENE TRAILLance Corporal · October 26, 1965
- RAYMOND LEE FORDWarrant Officer 1 · March 29, 1966
- CHARLES RAYMOND LEONARDSpecialist Four · July 22, 1967
- MANFORD DALVIS STEWARTPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- JOSEPH ANTHONY COOMESPetty Officer Third Class · September 21, 1967
- PAUL LEE PRICECorporal · September 23, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS COONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- ROBERT WESLEY WATTSWarrant Officer 1 · November 22, 1967
- KENNETH R SHOEMAKER JRFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 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.