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CARLETON PHILIP HASTINGS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 2, 1948 – June 18, 1968
Service recordCarleton Philip Hastings, of Ransomville, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 22
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
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 589 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- September 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Ransomville, New York (Niagara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 589 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 22
- RONALD KEITH GROOMSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JAMES CORNELIUS HEARDLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- MARCOS HINOJOSASpecialist Four · June 18, 1968
- DONALD ROBERT HOFFMANStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD HOWARD MEEKER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 25
From Ransomville
- CHESTER ARTHUR LEDERHOUSE JRLance Corporal · July 13, 1966
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.