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CHARLES SYLVESTER BERANEK
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 18, 1943 – June 14, 1968
Service recordCharles Sylvester Beranek, of Mosinee, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 16
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
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 18, 1943
- Home of record
- Mosinee, Wisconsin (Marathon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 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.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 57W, Line 16
- DANNY WADE ALDAYHospitalman · June 14, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE BLEVINSPrivate First Class · June 14, 1968
- RICHARD THOMAS CHRISTYSpecialist Four · June 14, 1968
- CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT CLAYPrivate First Class · June 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN JAMES KEDENBURGSpecialist Five · Panel 57W, Line 17
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.