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CARL DOUGLAS SHIRLEY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 15, 1944 – July 22, 1969
Service recordCarl Douglas Shirley, of High Point, North Carolina, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 22, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 34
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- March 15, 1944
- Home of record
- High Point, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 22, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date July 22, 1969; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 34
- ROLAND CHARLES HAMILTONFirst Lieutenant · July 22, 1969
- CHARLES WALTER JOHNSONPrivate First Class · July 22, 1969
- JOSEPH ALLEN MARASCOPrivate First Class · July 22, 1969
- LARRY GAY POOLSpecialist Four · July 22, 1969
From High Point
- CHARLES CLAYBOURN COXSergeant · November 4, 1965
- VICKEY EARL STANLEYPrivate First Class · September 27, 1966
- PHILIP OWEN PARRISHPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
- JAMES EARL JENKINSPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- REMBERT CRAWFORD JRStaff Sergeant · February 5, 1968
- FLOYD TYRONE SPENCERSergeant · March 11, 1968
- HASKER LEE NESBITT JRPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JOHN ULMER MCALISTERStaff Sergeant · May 23, 1968
- MILTON EUGENE FLOWERSCorporal · May 29, 1968
- RONALD LEE MABEPrivate First Class · May 29, 1968
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.