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CHARLES SEGAR JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 31, 1946 – June 20, 1968
Service recordCharles Segar JR, of St Stephen, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 31, 1946
- Home of record
- St Stephen, South Carolina (Berkeley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 9
- ROSS MCCLLELAN PRESTONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- MICHAEL GUSTAVE RINDONEPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- GREGORY MARK ROSSSergeant · June 20, 1968
- LAWRENCE ALLEN SHAFFERSergeant · June 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST LEE ELLIOTTSpecialist Four · Panel 55W, Line 5
- LARRY RUSSELL KENNANNCorporal · Panel 55W, Line 7
- SIDNEY CHESTER SQUIRESPrivate First Class · Panel 55W, Line 10
- DAVID LYNN STOCKMANSergeant · Panel 55W, Line 10
From St Stephen
- JOE DAVIS MOULTRIEPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- STEVEN ALFRED MIDDLETONSergeant · March 15, 1968
- EDDIE LEE SIMMONSPrivate First Class · October 1, 1968
- ALLISON WAYNE LOCKLAIRSpecialist Four · March 27, 1969
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.