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CHARLES TERRELL PITTMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 29, 1942 – February 13, 1966
Service recordCharles Terrell Pittman, of Fairmont, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 29
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- General Supply Specialist (76K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 29, 1942
- Home of record
- Fairmont, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 5E, Line 29
- JOE LEE WILLIAMSPetty Officer First Class · August 5, 1964
- HENRY ARTHUR GRETTENPrivate First Class · February 13, 1966
- JOHN MICHAEL HOARPrivate First Class · February 13, 1966
- WALTER KISALAPrivate First Class · February 13, 1966
- DAVID LEON SMITHLance Corporal · February 13, 1966
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD DAVID FORDPrivate · Panel 5E, Line 28
- HENRY ARTHUR GRETTENPrivate First Class · Panel 5E, Line 29
From Fairmont
- WILLIE JEROME PEPPERS JRSergeant · May 10, 1966
- BOBBY RAY JONESPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- WILLIE B MCNEILLSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- WILLIE F OXENDINE IIIPrivate First Class · May 30, 1968
- DAN MICHAEL BRITTSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- WYMAN GENE BRITTSpecialist Four · August 4, 1969
- VICTOR LAWRENCE JONESPrivate First Class · October 11, 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.