CHARLTON T-AKR 314

Ship Name and Designation History

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Watson Class Vehicle Cargo Ship Keel Laid 4 January 1999 - Launched 11 December 1999 USNS CHARLTON T-AKR-314 Placed in Service 23 May 2000

Sgt. Charlton, USA

 

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1. USNS Charlton T-AKR-314 Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

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Courtesy of the Dennis Gill collection

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton, US Army (24 July 1929 – 2 June 1951)
        Cornelius Charlton was born in Eastgulf, WV and enlisted in the US Army out of high school in 1946. Charlton left for Basic Combat Training in November 1946. In 1948, US President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the U.S. military with Executive Order 9981. Charlton was assigned to Allied-occupied Germany, where he served out his whole enlistment. Charlton opted to re-enlist, and his next assignment was with a military engineering battalion at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland.
        In 1950, Charlton was assigned to the Occupation of Japan, and was given an administrative job on Okinawa with an engineering group of the Eighth United States Army. After he requesting transfer to a front line unit in South Korea, he was subsequently assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, part of the 25th Infantry Division. In late May and early June 1951, the Eighth Army launched "Operation Piledriver", a concentrated effort to push Chinese and North Korean troops further north and out of South Korea. On 2 June 1951, Sgt Charlton made a last ditch effort to break through a heavily defended bunker and during the battle, he was killed in action. For his heroic actions, Sgt Charlton earned the Medal of Honor. His parents received his medal on March 12, 1952, by Secretary of the Army Frank Pace.
        Along with the Medal of Honor, Sgt Charlton also earned the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Purple Heart Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the Army of Occupation Medal w/ 'Germany' clasp, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal w/ 1 Campaign star, the United Nations Service Medal (Korea), the Korean War Service Medal and the Korean Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon.

 

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