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| Chief Master Sergeant Charles Douglas (Doug) King |
As an aside, 52 deaths on one day of the year is much lower than average for the Vietnam War. If the 58,000 deaths were evenly spread over the 365 days of the year, the average would be about 160 on each calendar date. The lower number for December 25 is likely due to Christmas truces that were sometimes observed.
Here are the American heroes on died in Vietnam on a Christmas Day. One of them, Charles Douglas King, died when he volunteered for a mission to try and rescue a downed pilot. His story is told here. http://tinyurl.com/qxw6ff8
MATTHEW JOHN AGUGLIARO, 20 Army – PFC, West Hempstead, New
York
ROBERT ALAN AMSPACHER, 21, Army
- SP4, Norman, Oklahoma
PAUL WILLIAM BAKER, 25, Army -
SP4, Columbus, Ohio
CHARLES RICHARD BROWNLEE, 37, Air
Force – Colonel, Alamosa, Colorado
THOMAS GEORGE BRUBAKER, 20, Army
– PFC, Sutter, California
MARK BRYANT, 25, Army – SGT,
Cold Spring, Kentucky
RICHARD WALTER BUDKA, 35, Air
Force – CAPT, Amsterdam, New York
WILLIAM D CARSON, 23, Army –
SSGT, Bridgeport, Connecticut
GIACOMO JAMES CINTINEO, 23, Army
- SP5, Phoenix, Arizona
CARL M EGOLF, 21, Army - SP4,
Westminster, Maryland
GEORGE LEONARD FRAGUA, 19, Army –
PFC, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
WILBERT LEE GILLESPIE, 27, Army
– SSGT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
THOMAS ANTHONY GRUD, 25, Marine
Corps - 1LT, Park Ridge, Illinois
SANDY LEE HOOKER, 21, Army –
SGT, Chicago, Illinois
MARSHAL LYNN HORTON, 23, Army -
SP4, Long Beach, California
ANDREW MICHAEL HUDAK, 20, Marine
Corps – LCPL, Warren, Ohio
PAUL W. JANDERSHOVITZ, 38, Army
– SFC, Allentown, Pennsylvania
DANNY WAYNE JETER, 19, Army -
SP4, Riverside, California
BERNARD DEREK JOHNSON, 21, Army
- SP4, Syracuse, New York
CHARLES DOUGLAS KING, 32, Air Force,
Chief Master Sergeant, Muscatine, Iowa
ROBERT MICHAE KLEVENOWSKI, 19, Navy
– Fireman, Cleveland, Ohio
DONALD JOSEPH KNEBEL, 19, Army,
Jasper, Indiana
RICHARD J KNICKERBOCKER, 20, Army
– PFC, Youngstown, Ohio
EARL WILLIAM KNUTSON, 21, Marine
Corps – PFC, Clinton, Wisconsin
BILLY EUGENE LANKFORD, 37, Air
Force – MAJ, Dickson, Tennessee
DELBERT O LEWIS, 24, Army – PFC,
Shelby, Ohio
BOBBY SPENCER MALICHI, 32, Army
– SFC, Bennettsville, South Carolina
CHARLES D MC CLURG, 18, Army –
PFC, Bangor, Michigan
RAYMOND JAMES METTY, 22, Army –
PFC, Buffalo, New York
JOHN D MORRIS, 25, Air Force –
SSGT, Waukesha, Wisconsin
PHILLIP ERNEST NEFF, 20, Army -
SP4, Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
THOMAS FRANCIS O’DEA, 42, Army –
LTC, Chicago, Illinois
LARRY HUGH OERTEL, 22, Army -
SP4, Stratford, Wisconsin
KENNETH FRANCIS OLENZUK, 20, Marine
Corps – LCPL, Detroit, Michigan
HUGHIE OXENDINE, 35, Army –
SSGT, Lumberton, NC
LEONIDAS RAISIS, 26, Army – SGT,
Westboro, Massachusetts
LARRY REED, 26, Army – SGT,
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
DONALD WAYNE RICHARD, 22, Army –
SGT, Houston, Texas
JIMMIE LEE ROBINSON, 22, Army –
PFC, Eastover, South Carolina
FRANCIS EUGENE SANDERS, 19, Army
– PFC, Augusta, Michigan
JOHNNY CRAWFORD SANDERS, 46, Army
– MSGT, Jackson, Mississippi
PETER W SCOTT, 22, Air Force –
SGT, Linden, New Jersey
FERNANDO SEDA, 19, Marine Corps
– LCPL, New York, New York
JERRY ALAN SELLERS, 32, Air
Force – MAJ, Altha, Florida
JOE THOMAS SHUMPERT, 29, Army -
SP5, West Columbia, South Carolina
RONALD JAMES SIENGO, 21, Army -
2LT, Cornwell Heights, Pennsylvania
HARRY RICHARD SINE, 20, Army –
PFC, Rivesville, West Virginia
CARL ROBERT STEFFEN, 18, Marine
Corps – PFC, Trenton, New Jersey
HERBERT DONALD SURBER, 20, Marine
Corps – PFC, Floral City, Florida
EDGAR JOHN UDELL, 21, Army -
SP4, Coos Bay, Oregon
JAMES CHARLES WATSON, 27, Army –
SSGT, McMinnville, Tennessee
RUSSELL LEE WELLS, 24, Army -
SP5, El Paso, Texas
HAROLD DAVID WILLIAMS, 35, Air Force – TSGT,
Aberdeen, North Carolina 
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