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CHARLES ROBERT BALES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 17, 1947 – August 22, 1968
Service recordCharles Robert Bales, of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 25
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
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Shawnee Mission, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 22, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 47W, Line 25
- DAVID ALLAN BALLOUPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
- KENNETH NEIL BRANDESCorporal · August 22, 1968
- CHARLES WILLIS E BROWNPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
- PAUL ELMER PARKERPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES BLAIN CARLSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 47W, Line 26
- WAYDELL GETTERStaff Sergeant · Panel 47W, Line 27
- NEWELL FERRELL LEIGH JRSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 29
- PETER JOSEPH MEARS JRCorporal · Panel 47W, Line 29
- PETER LOWELL RUSSELLSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 33
From Shawnee Mission
- RICHARD LYNN MOWREYLieutenant (junior grade) · December 14, 1966
- LARRY WYNN PETETTSecond Lieutenant · February 27, 1968
- LAWRENCE WALKER SCANLANPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- ROBERT ORAL GIRDNERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- GEORGE DAVIDSON STONEPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE GLYNNPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- WILLIS ALBERT TOOMESSergeant · September 21, 1968
- JAMES GILBERT HUMPHREYSergeant · November 11, 1968
- LANNY JOHN WALLACEFirst Lieutenant · July 21, 1970
- CHARLES LEE HOSKINSCaptain · February 16, 1971
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.