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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Robert Bogart.

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CHARLES ROBERT BOGART

Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 25, 1946 – November 13, 1968

Service record

Charles Robert Bogart, of Mcdonough, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 57

Position of Panel 39W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
June 25, 1946
Home of record
Mcdonough, Georgia (Henry County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 13, 1968
Age
22
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 57

Same unit, same day

From Mcdonough

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.