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CHARLES WAYNE TURBERVILLE
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
July 17, 1950 – September 26, 1971
Service recordCharles Wayne Turberville, of Finchburg, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 26, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 27
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- July 17, 1950
- Home of record
- Finchburg, Alabama (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 26, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1971. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 27
- HERBERT ELBRIDGE ARMSTRONGSergeant First Class · September 27, 1971
- JAMES FRANKLIN BISHOPPrivate · September 27, 1971
- LUIS HECTOR CAMPOSSergeant · September 27, 1971
- RANDALL KELVIN CLEMENTSSergeant · September 27, 1971
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.