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CHARLES WARREN SMITH
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 25, 1944 – October 30, 1966
Service recordCharles Warren Smith, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 131 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 131
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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
- March 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 53 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 131
- LINZA NORRISPrivate First Class · October 30, 1966
- EUGENE RICARDO TACTAY JRSpecialist Four · October 30, 1966
- JAMES LLOYD WALKERPrivate First Class · October 30, 1966
- WILMER JAY WILLINGHAMWarrant Officer 1 · October 30, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DONALD ALFRED CHRISTPrivate First Class · Panel 11E, Line 129
- JAMES LLOYD WALKERPrivate First Class · Panel 11E, Line 131
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.