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CARL LEROY HUGHES JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 18, 1949 – December 14, 1969
Service recordCarl Leroy Hughes JR, of Kokomo, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Kokomo, Indiana (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1969; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 55
- EUGENE CAULEY JRPrivate First Class · December 14, 1969
- ROBERT EUGENE HEWITTSpecialist Four · December 14, 1969
- GRANT HAMLY HIGHSMITHStaff Sergeant · December 14, 1969
- CHESTER LYN HUGHEYPrivate First Class · December 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PAUL CHARLES MEDLINSecond Lieutenant · Panel 15W, Line 56
From Kokomo
- JOHN PHILLIP FEWELL JRCaptain · January 28, 1966
- DOUGLAS ARTHUR CLESTERCorporal · June 12, 1966
- JERRY LOUIS SPICERStaff Sergeant · February 3, 1967
- BRUCE ALLEN YODERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RONNIE M SNIDERSergeant · August 11, 1967
- LARRY STEPHEN NEWBURNCorporal · August 29, 1967
- STEVEN THOMAS RUNYONLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- LESLIE DAVID MATCHETTSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- RAYMOND BROWNSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES FOUSTSpecialist Five · March 26, 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.