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CHARLES RICHARD JONES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 22, 1950 – December 4, 1969
Service recordCharles Richard Jones, of Parryville, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 24
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- August 22, 1950
- Home of record
- Parryville, Pennsylvania (Carbon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1969; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 24
- DAVID ALLEN HICKMANChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 4, 1969
- JAKE MARTINEZLance Corporal · December 4, 1969
- CLEVELAND PITTSSpecialist Four · December 4, 1969
- DAVID CHARLES SCHOENEWALDHospitalman · December 4, 1969
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.