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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charlie Bernard Ingram JR.

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CHARLIE BERNARD INGRAM JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 12, 1940 – March 4, 1967

Service record

Charlie Bernard Ingram JR, of Phenix City, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 17

Position of Panel 16E 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
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
February 12, 1940
Home of record
Phenix City, Alabama (Russell County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 4, 1967
Age
27
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 17

Same unit, same day

From Phenix City

All 18 names from Phenix City →

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.