Newton, Charles Vernon
Army Major sergeant

Charles Vernon Newton, age 28, from Canadian, Texas, Hemphill county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, April 17, 1969

Death details: On August 11, 2010, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Master Sergeant Charles Vernon Newton, missing from the Vietnam War.

Master Sergeant Newton joined the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On April 17, 1969, he was a part of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. The patrol was ambushed by enemy forces, and thunderstorms in the area prevented air support from reaching the recon team. Master Sergeant Newton was killed in the attack and search teams were unable to locate his remains following the incident. After the war, joint U.S. and Vietnamese investigators excavated the site associated with the ambush and recovered human remains. In 2010, modern forensic techniques identified MSG Newton from among the recovered remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com