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CHARLES ROBERT VESSELS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 31, 1935 – October 18, 1966
Service recordCharles Robert Vessels, of Livingstons Quarters, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 86
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 31, 1935
- Home of record
- Livingstons Quarters, North Carolina (Scotland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1966
- Age
- 31
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 86
- LEONARD WESLEY BURNSSpecialist Five · October 18, 1966
- LAWRENCE CLARKChief Master Sergeant · October 18, 1966
- BOBBIE JEFFERSON DENNISWarrant Officer 1 · October 18, 1966
- VICTOR ORIN FOWLER JRStaff Sergeant · October 18, 1966
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK HARRY LEWISSergeant First Class · Panel 11E, Line 87
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.