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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 Larry Wilder.

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CHARLIE LARRY WILDER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 17, 1948 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Charlie Larry Wilder, of Fairburn, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 30

Position of Panel 31W 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
Aircraft Powerplant Repairer (68B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 17, 1948
Home of record
Fairburn, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 100 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 30

Same unit, same day

From Fairburn

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.