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CHARLES RAY GOODWIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 1, 1947 – March 21, 1967
Service recordCharles Ray Goodwin, of Galena Park, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Galena Park, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault 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.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 2
- THOMAS MCCLURE ELLIOTTSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- WALTER GENE MERVIN ELLISSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES ROBERT EMORYFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1967
- TONIE LEE ENGLAND JRCaptain · March 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD MATHEW AMATOSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 127
- HERMAN E ANDERS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 127
- JAMES DALE BREWERSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 127
- NORMAN L BALLANCE IIISpecialist Five · Panel 16E, Line 128
- MICHAEL ARLIN BALZERSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 128
- LARRY DEAN BARTONSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 128
- THOMAS LYNN BELLPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 128
- KENNETH GENE BLANTONSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 129
- MATTHEW DAVID ATKINS IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 130
- JOSEPH JOHN DILANDROSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 1
- JACK EATONStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 1
- CHARLES ROBERT EMORYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 2
- BRIAN FRANCIS GIBBONSPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 3
- WILLIE GRANT JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 3
- CHARLES ROBERT GREERPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 4
- EVERETTE EUGENE HARDINGPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 4
- JOHN OLIVER HARRISPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 4
- JAMES RAYMOND HINTZSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 5
- VIRGIL MADISON LEDFORDSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 7
- WILLIAM EARL MALLORY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 7
- EDWARD JERRY MULLERSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 9
- GARLAND ANDREW NEWHOUSESpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 10
- THOMAS DOUGLAS PETERKINSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 11
- JOHN FRANCIS PEZZULOCorporal · Panel 17E, Line 11
From Galena Park
- LEROY SPILLER IIILance Corporal · August 29, 1967
- ROY L JOHNSONSpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
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.