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PAUL FREDERICK CHARNETZKI
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 25, 1936 – February 7, 1968
Service recordPaul Frederick Charnetzki, of Valley City, North Dakota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 80
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 25, 1936
- Home of record
- Valley City, North Dakota (Barnes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 80
- LAWRENCE CHAPLINPrivate · February 7, 1968
- ROBERT EDMUND COATESFirst Lieutenant · February 7, 1968
- ERNEST WESLEY COLESergeant · February 7, 1968
- JERRY LAMAYNE COLLIERPetty Officer Third Class · February 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HARMON L REMMEL IIIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 38E, Line 12
- VORIN EDWIN WHAN JRLieutenant Colonel · Panel 38E, Line 18
From Valley City
- WILLIS WILLIAM WEBERSergeant · November 11, 1965
- MICHAEL DUANE HIMMERICKHospitalman · April 6, 1967
- THOMAS ALFRED SENNEPrivate First Class · October 26, 1968
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.