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CARL GILBERT MOTES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 15, 1924 – June 12, 1969
Service recordCarl Gilbert Motes, of Webster, Florida, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 45. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · 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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 15, 1924
- Home of record
- Webster, Florida (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1969
- Age
- 45
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1969; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 34
- THOMAS MICHAEL MARCHANDPrivate First Class · June 12, 1969
- WILLIAM TRAVIS MATLOCKSergeant · June 12, 1969
- THOMAS HOWARD MCSTOOTSPrivate First Class · June 12, 1969
- DENNIS BRIAN MURRAYSpecialist Four · June 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BENJAMIN F LEWIS JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 22W, Line 33
From Webster
- JOHNNY LEE GODFREYStaff Sergeant · July 18, 1970
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.