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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carl C Spangler.

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CARL C SPANGLER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 18, 1935 – May 22, 1966

Service record

Carl C Spangler, of Bristol, Tennessee, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 104

Position of Panel 7E 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 18, 1935
Home of record
Bristol, Tennessee (Sullivan County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 22, 1966
Age
30
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 104

Same unit, same day

From Bristol

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.