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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles Robert Jenkins

1940 - 2017

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Charles Robert Jenkins ((1940-02-18)18 February 1940 – (2017-12-11)11 December 2017) was a United States Army deserter, North Korean prisoner, and voice for Japanese abductees in North Korea. Driven by fear of combat and possible service in the Vietnam War, then-Sergeant Jenkins abandoned his patrol and walked across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in January 1965. Instead of being sent to the Soviet Union and then traded back to the US, Jenkins was held captive in North Korea for over 39 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Robert Jenkins has received more than 1,166,726 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charles Robert Jenkins is the 1,117th most popular military personnel (down from 981st in 2019), the 3,621st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,213th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 52.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles Robert Jenkins ranks 1,117 out of 1,468. Before him are Vitalian, Doris Miller, Ryszard Kukliński, Polina Gelman, François de Créquy, and George Dewey. After him are Abdul Fatah Younis, Adherbal, Neoptolemus, Abdul Haris Nasution, Augustín Malár, and Pavel Rybalko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Charles Robert Jenkins ranks 203. Before him are Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Graham McRae, Angela Carter, Marie-José Nat, Gloria Leonard, and Louis Pilot. After him are Don Nelson, Sharad Pawar, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Jana Brejchová, Christoph Blocher, and Pedro Armendáriz Jr.. Among people deceased in 2017, Charles Robert Jenkins ranks 181. Before him are Gilberto Agustoni, Stephen Paddock, Baldwin Lonsdale, William Baumol, Mary Tyler Moore, and Kim Jong-hyun. After him are Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Lennart Nilsson, Dritëro Agolli, Allan Holdsworth, Arthur Janov, and Roger Walkowiak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Robert Jenkins ranks 3,621 out of 18,182. Before him are Alan Dershowitz (1938), Friz Freleng (1906), Halton Arp (1927), John Petrucci (1967), Burl Ives (1909), and James Edward Keeler (1857). After him are Don Nelson (1940), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Gore Verbinski (1964), Michael Jai White (1967), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), and Crawford Long (1815).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Charles Robert Jenkins ranks 57. Before him are Monte Melkonian (1957), Lucius D. Clay (1898), Alexander Vandegrift (1887), Kit Carson (1809), Doris Miller (1919), and George Dewey (1837). After him are Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), Marc Mitscher (1887), James M. Gavin (1907), John C. Woods (1911), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), and Wesley Clark (1944).

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