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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Thomas Stockbauer.

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CHARLES THOMAS STOCKBAUER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 10, 1946 – July 10, 1969

Service record

Charles Thomas Stockbauer, of St Joseph, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 95

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 10, 1946
Home of record
St Joseph, Missouri (Buchanan County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 10, 1969
Age
23
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1969; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 95

Same unit, same day

From St Joseph

All 27 names from St Joseph →

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.