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CARL JOSEPH LATOUR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 27, 1943 – June 24, 1966
Service recordCarl Joseph Latour, of Plattsburgh, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 87
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 27, 1943
- Home of record
- Plattsburgh, New York (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 24, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 87
- RICHARD F LABARBERAPrivate First Class · June 24, 1966
- LAWRENCE P LEBRUNPrivate First Class · June 24, 1966
- LAWRENCE FREDERICK NYMANLieutenant (junior grade) · June 24, 1966
- ROBERT DANEL OWEN JRSergeant First Class · June 24, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JURIS PUDULSSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 88
From Plattsburgh
- EUGENE EDWARD BONNETTStaff Sergeant · December 14, 1966
- THOMAS EDWARD TOWNSLEYPrivate · January 5, 1967
- MICHAEL FRANCIS CONLEYCorporal · May 31, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES WALLACEPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- WILLIAM ALBERT ASPINALLCorporal · September 13, 1967
- ROBERT VINCENT SIPELance Corporal · October 1, 1967
- ALBERT WAYNE CUDWORTHPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- GENE ALFRED LABOUNTYLance Corporal · May 20, 1968
- WILLIAM CLAYTON WRAYPrivate First Class · September 23, 1968
- EDWARD FREDERICK BROWN JRPrivate First Class · February 12, 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.