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CARL HORACE WALL JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 10, 1947 – October 6, 1967
Service recordCarl Horace Wall JR, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 6, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 62
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- April 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Read the history
Also on Panel 27E, Line 62
- THOMAS EARL SPRINGFIELDLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- THEODORE NELSON TAKACS JRPrivate First Class · October 6, 1967
- LEWIS ARTHUR TRASKPrivate First Class · October 6, 1967
- VAUN ANDREWSSergeant · October 7, 1967
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 1968
- KENNETH GLENN SPENCERFirst Lieutenant · April 25, 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.