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CHARLIE MELVIN ELLISON
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
November 16, 1943 – February 27, 1969
Service recordCharlie Melvin Ellison, of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 79
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Commissaryman (CS)
- Born
- November 16, 1943
- Home of record
- Kings Mountain, North Carolina (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1969; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 31W, Line 79
- JOHN HENRY ERBESPrivate First Class · February 27, 1969
- DONALD JAY FISHERChief Petty Officer · February 27, 1969
- RONALD JACKSON GEBBIEPetty Officer Third Class · February 27, 1969
- MIKE MORA GODINESPetty Officer First Class · February 27, 1969
From Kings Mountain
- CHRISTOPHER EUGENE BROOKSPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- DUDLEY CARROLL HUGHES JRSeaman · December 23, 1967
- GREGORY WAYNE THOMASCorporal · May 21, 1968
- ROBERT LARRY DELLINGERSergeant · October 27, 1968
- MICHAEL ALLAN GRAHAMCorporal · October 7, 1970
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.