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CARL FRANKLIN GARRISON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 28, 1944 – November 2, 1966
Service recordCarl Franklin Garrison, of Clanton, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 10
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Clanton, Alabama (Chilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 10
- THOMAS ALFRED DUCKETTLance Corporal · November 2, 1966
- LARRY LEE FULLERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
- ROBERT EARL KLINEColonel · November 2, 1966
- SAMUEL LIGHTMANPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW JAMES ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 11
From Clanton
- RANDY MICKEL MINORSpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD LONGSergeant · November 7, 1967
- LEONARD ONEAL CHANDLERStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1968
- TERRY WAYNE LOVETTPrivate First Class · June 12, 1969
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.