CHARLES W HASKELL
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HONORED ON PANEL 65E, LINE 10 OF THE WALL

CHARLES WESLEY HASKELL

WALL NAME

CHARLES W HASKELL

PANEL / LINE

65E/10

DATE OF BIRTH

08/21/1942

CASUALTY PROVINCE

QUANG NAM

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/22/1968

HOME OF RECORD

SACRAMENTO

COUNTY OF RECORD

Sacramento County

STATE

CA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

MARINE CORPS

RANK

SGT

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR CHARLES WESLEY HASKELL
POSTED ON 5.29.2023
POSTED BY: A Grateful American

Memorial Day Weekend 2023

Remembering you and those who didn't make it home from the Vietnam War. This year makes 50 years since America left Vietnam, but the time that you and those we lost have been gone seems so much longer.

With respect, always.
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POSTED ON 10.17.2022
POSTED BY: John Fabris

We Will Remember

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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POSTED ON 6.20.2022

Final Mission of SGT Charles W. Haskell

Operation Mameluke Thrust (May 19 - October 23, 1968) was a U.S. Marine Corps operation in Happy Valley southwest of Da Nang, RVN. Happy Valley was a major Viet Cong (VC)/North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base camp, storage area, and supply infiltration route. Nicknamed the "Rocket Belt,” enemy personnel and material was placed in positions on the hills overlooking or surrounding the Da Nang area and fired 122mm rockets (with a range of seven miles) at the city and allied military facilities. On the third day of Mameluke Thrust, a Golf Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division mobile Fire Direction Center (FDC) was set up inside a LVTP-5 amphibious tracked vehicle parked on the sand adjacent to the Song Vu Gia (river) at the base of Hill 52. The Amtrac faced the river with its rear loading ramp lowered, and the Fire Direction Officer, 1LT James R. Muckleroy, and his watch sergeant, SGT Charles W. Haskell, sat in lawn chairs across from each other on the ramp. To the south of their position past the river, NVA mortars had been harassing the Golf position for several days and inflicted a number of casualties. At approximately 3:30 PM, 82mm mortar rounds began falling again. The incoming rounds were adjusted and marched toward the FDC at three-minute intervals. In an extraordinary occurrence that could have never been duplicated, a round landed on the ramp between Muckleroy and Haskell, mortally wounding both men. The blast also fatally injured another Marine inside the Amtrac, LCPL Richard A. McClain, and wounded three others. A medivac was called, and while the casualties were being organized, countermortar fire was returned by Golf Battery and Kilo Battery, 4/11. The evacuation helicopter set down in a cornfield behind the battery, and Muckleroy and Haskell were still alive when placed on the chopper; they expired shortly after. The events of May 22nd pained the members of Golf, and after the battery moved on, the area was forever remembered as “Mortar Beach.” [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and “Command Chronology (11th Marines), May 1968” and “Command Chronology (3d Bn 11th Marines)” at ttu.edu; also, information provided by Larry Binns (April 2022)]
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POSTED ON 5.29.2022
POSTED BY: Curt Carter

Memorial Day Observance 2022

We can tell Memorial Day is coming with the wreaths that hang on front doors, and the small red, white, and blue American flags that line the grass covered graves of the Veterans’ cemeteries all acrosse America. One of those graves is yours, and we honor your life and your memory on this Memorial day.

May we never forget your example and the true cost of our freedoms. You with those who love you paid that cost, and America will be forever indebted.

With respect, always.
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POSTED ON 8.21.2021
POSTED BY: Jury Washington

Thank You For Your Valiant Service Marine.

May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace SGT. Haskell, I salute your brave soul. My heart goes out to you and your family. Semper Fidelis!
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