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CHARLIE VANCE THOMPSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 29, 1947 – June 18, 1968
Service recordCharlie Vance Thompson, of Stantonsburg, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 29
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Stantonsburg, North Carolina (Wilson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 65 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 56W, Line 29
- CALVIN LEE TERRELLPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- CHARLES BLAKE THOMASLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- EARL THOMASStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1968
- BOBBY RAY TRAPPPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEROY CLYDE GEYERSergeant First Class · Panel 56W, Line 16
- ALVIN PETER CHRISTENSENPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 18
- RANDY STEPHEN SCHELLSpecialist Four · Panel 56W, Line 27
- DANIEL ANDREW WITKOPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 30
From Stantonsburg
- WILLIAM RUFUS SPEIGHTSpecialist Four · May 19, 1970
- WILLIAM JAMES WARD JRCorporal · April 15, 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.