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CHARLES RICKY BARTHOLOMEW
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 2, 1946 – March 21, 1968
Service recordCharles Ricky Bartholomew, of Truro, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 45
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Dental Technician (DT)
- Born
- October 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Truro, Iowa (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 45
- ROBERT WAGNER ATWELLPrivate First Class · March 21, 1968
- EDGAR BAKER JRPrivate First Class · March 21, 1968
- DANIEL F BETTENCOURT JRSpecialist Four · March 21, 1968
- LARRY WILLIAM JONESCaptain · March 21, 1968
From Truro
- DON R HARGERWarrant Officer 1 · August 17, 1967
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.