GREEN BERETS Newton, Charles Vernon

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Newton ​

• FORENAME

Charles Vernon ​

• UNIT

5 SF Group (Det B-52) (Project Delta) (RT 6) ​

• RANK

Staff Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

458626600​

• DATE OF DEATH

17th April 1969 ​

• AGE

28 ​

• GRAVESITE

Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 60 Site 9895 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Canadian,Texas​

born 10.5.1940 Canadian,Texas​

son of Troy Dean and Evelyn Ida (nee Shaller) Newton​

single​

entered service 16.12.1959​

awards Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster,Air Medal​

82nd Airborne Division​

5th SF Group November 1966​

WIA 11.1.1968 Long Binh,South Vietnam​

MIA 14k SW of Nam Dong,Thua Thien Province,South Vietnam​

body not recovered​

promoted Sergeant First Class posthumously 16.12.1969​

declared dead 18.5.1979 as Master Sergeant​

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing​

reports of POW​

remains repatriated 18.6.2007​

remains identified August 2010​

individual burial​

also group burial 5.10.2011 (Section 60 Site 9896)​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 27W Line 102 ​

Edith Ford Memorial Cemeteries,Canadian,Hemphill County,Texas Section EF Block 81 (memorial stone)​

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