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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Roland Townsend.

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CHARLES ROLAND TOWNSEND

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

January 7, 1942 – April 12, 1970

Service record

Charles Roland Townsend, of Evinston, Florida, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 12, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12W · Line 129

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Commissaryman (CS)
Unit (as recorded)
NMCB 7 3 NC BDE
Born
January 7, 1942
Home of record
Evinston, Florida (Alachua County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 12, 1970
Age
28
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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16 names on the Wall carry the date April 12, 1970; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 12W, Line 129

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.