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CARLTON TRAVIS GOREE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 3, 1948 – September 5, 1968
Service recordCarlton Travis Goree, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 40
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 40
- TOMAS ANTONIO BARRERAPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE BOTTSSergeant · September 5, 1968
- ROBERT LAWRENCE FAIRBOTHAMSpecialist Four · September 5, 1968
- FREDERICK GOCZALPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EUGENE BOTTSSergeant · Panel 45W, Line 40
- DAVID DOUGLAS SIEGELCorporal · Panel 45W, Line 46
- JOSEPH MICHAEL TURKSpecialist Five · Panel 45W, Line 46
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 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.