Military Science and Leadership
Charles F. Thomas IV
Captain
WKU Class of 1968
Deceased April 1971
Killed in action in the Republic of Vietnam
He was a member of the 3/319 Field Artillery assigned to the 173d Airborne Brigade
At the time of his death he was an artillery liaison officer with an infantry battalion in the brigade
His compound came under a mortar attack during the night and CPT Thomas left the relative security of his hooch and raced across an open area of the compound to rally the troops and organize his howitzers into firing counterbattery fires Just short of reaching his guns he was mortally wounded by enemy mortar round
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