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CARL RODMAN HINKLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 8, 1946 – December 29, 1968
Service recordCarl Rodman Hinkle, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1968, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 4
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- November 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Jeffersonville, Indiana (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 4
- EUGENE FELTS JRPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE FISHERPrivate First Class · December 29, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY HAUPT IIILance Corporal · December 29, 1968
- DAN NINKEY JAMESSpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
From Jeffersonville
- LEONARD ISLER CRAVENStaff Sergeant · February 11, 1966
- DAVID MARVIN JOLLEY JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1966
- GUY CLIFTON GETTINGSPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- RICHARD LOUIS BARTLEYCorporal · January 31, 1968
- WILLIAM EUGENE MORMAN JRSergeant · November 11, 1968
- MALCOLM EUGENE LOMAXPrivate · November 27, 1968
- RICHARD TYRONE LEAVELLPrivate First Class · April 5, 1969
- JAMES HOWELL SUMNERFirst Sergeant · May 2, 1969
- ROBERT DEAN LEWISSpecialist Four · May 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.