Courson, Charles Truitt
Marines Corporal

Charles Truitt Courson, age 21, from Smith County Tyler, Texas .

Parents: F. T. Courson

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, March 26, 1966
Death details: Died in a hospital in Honolulu where he was taken for treatment of severe burns suffered when an amphibious tractor he was driving in Vietnam struck a mine.
Cemetery: Tyler Memorial Park

Source: National Archives, Tyler Morning Telegraph (1966)