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CHARLES ROBERT MEARS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 10, 1945 – June 16, 1967
Service recordCharles Robert Mears, of Patterson, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 16, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Patterson, California (Stanislaus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1967; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 113
- RANDY MICKEL MINORSpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- LAWRENCE HOWARD MITCHELLSergeant · June 16, 1967
- EDWARD MORRISSpecialist Five · June 16, 1967
- ALVA NORTEN MYRICK IISergeant · June 16, 1967
From Patterson
- DEMETRIO LOMELI HERNANDEZSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- LEONARD REZASergeant · April 22, 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.