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CHARLES RAY HENLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 29, 1947 – July 15, 1968
Service recordCharles Ray Henley, of Union Lake, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 35
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- November 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Union Lake, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 35
- MICHAEL ALLEN BEALSSergeant · July 15, 1968
- STEVEN GIACOPPO JRSergeant · July 15, 1968
- ROBERT DAVIS HICKOXCorporal · July 15, 1968
- ROLAND HAYES JENKINSPrivate · July 15, 1968
From Union Lake
- JAMES RAY LAUDICINASergeant · September 9, 1967
- ROBERT DANIEL CAINPrivate First Class · October 23, 1967
- DAVID EARL WEDHORNPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- GREGORY JAMES EVANSPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- THOMAS LEO TAFFEPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- GORDON E MYERSCorporal · January 25, 1969
- JOHN WALLACE STEWARTCorporal · May 5, 1969
- JOSEPH CHARLES CHISHOLMSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- FREDERIC HUTCHISON DAVISSergeant · June 7, 1969
- TIMOTHY ALLEN WHITEPrivate First Class · July 28, 1970
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.