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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carlton Harvey Hood.

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CARLTON HARVEY HOOD

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 11, 1949 – May 27, 1968

Service record

Carlton Harvey Hood, of Barnesville, Georgia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 27, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 65W · Line 10

Position of Panel 65W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Rifleman (0311)
Born
January 11, 1949
Home of record
Barnesville, Georgia (Lamar County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 27, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 65W, Line 10

From Barnesville

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.