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CHARLIE RAINEY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 26, 1947 – April 9, 1968
Service recordCharlie Rainey, of Winter Garden, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 5
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Winter Garden, Florida (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 5
- JOSEPH RONALD PAULETTESergeant · April 9, 1968
- EMERY NORMAN POITROWStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE REEDPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- JACK RAYMOND REINKESpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES DALE DILLONStaff Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 57
From Winter Garden
- NATHAN EDDLOW PEACOCK JRStaff Sergeant · April 8, 1967
- CECIL ROY MOORMANLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- HERBERT LEON THOMPSONSpecialist Four · October 19, 1967
- BUFORD GERALD JOHNSONSpecialist Five · April 24, 1968
- MARION EUGENE REEDMajor · October 23, 1968
- CHARLIE FIELDSSpecialist Four · March 3, 1969
- CHARLES WILLIAM LOVE JRStaff Sergeant · December 27, 1969
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.