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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Baxter Colidge Carroll.

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BAXTER COLIDGE CARROLL

Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 7, 1930 – January 13, 1966

Service record

Baxter Colidge Carroll, of Triplett, North Carolina, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 68

Position of Panel 4E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 7, 1930
Home of record
Triplett, North Carolina (Watauga County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 13, 1966
Age
35
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 58 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 68

Same unit, same day

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.