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CHARLES RICHARD CONNOR
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Marine Corps
January 15, 1938 – October 28, 1968
Service recordCharles Richard Connor, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on October 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 48
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot Vma A-4 Qualified (I) (7501)
- Unit (as recorded)
- H & MS 13 MAG 13 1 MAW
- Born
- January 15, 1938
- Home of record
- Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 28, 1968
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40W, Line 48
- ROCKY LEE BLAIRLance Corporal · October 28, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE EVANSCorporal · October 28, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE FAULPrivate First Class · October 28, 1968
- RONNIE LEN RUSSELLPrivate First Class · October 28, 1968
From Salt Lake City
- DONALD VERNON MCGREGORCaptain · August 13, 1963
- REED GEORGE JENSENMajor · July 28, 1964
- FRANCIS JOHN DUNC DELMARKLance Corporal · August 18, 1965
- DON RICHARD HOODCaptain · October 2, 1965
- WILLIAM LEE MILLERPrivate First Class · October 24, 1965
- ROBERT LEE STOKESSergeant · November 15, 1965
- ROBERT LEE CRAFTPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- RICHARD DENNIS PARKERSpecialist Four · January 30, 1966
- DAVID J BROADHEADPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- THOMAS GAVIN WALSTERLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 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.