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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 Emory.

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CHARLES ROBERT EMORY

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

August 18, 1943 – March 21, 1967

Service record

Charles Robert Emory, of Roanoke, Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 2

Position of Panel 17E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
August 18, 1943
Home of record
Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1967
Age
23
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; 22 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From Roanoke

All 49 names from Roanoke →

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.