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CHARLES RICHARD KIER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 11, 1946 – December 27, 1965
Service recordCharles Richard Kier, of Mound Valley, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 27, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 42
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Mound Valley, Kansas (Labette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 42
- OTHA THEANDER THOMPSONCorporal · August 24, 1965
- DAVID ALLAN KOVACLance Corporal · December 27, 1965
- WAYNE THOMAS LONGPrivate · December 27, 1965
- PAUL CLIVE O TAYLORPrivate First Class · December 27, 1965
- RICHARD EDWIN WILSONLance Corporal · December 27, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JOHN JOSEPH CARLONE IIPrivate · Panel 4E, Line 41
- JAMES CLIFTON GUILLORYSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 41
- STEPHEN DYER JEWETTSpecialist Four · Panel 4E, Line 41
- PAUL CLIVE O TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 42
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.