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CARMEN DECUBELLIS JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 3, 1946 – October 29, 1969
Service recordCarmen Decubellis JR, of Cranston, Rhode Island, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 1
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Cranston, Rhode Island (Providence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 1
- EZEQUIEL TORRES JRPrivate First Class · October 28, 1969
- BRUCE ALLEN UGELSTADSpecialist Four · October 28, 1969
- JOHN PAUL WRIGHTWarrant Officer 1 · October 28, 1969
- GERALD THOMAS GREENO JRSpecialist Five · October 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JEROME GERALD HATTERPrivate First Class · Panel 16W, Line 2
From Cranston
- FREDRIC MOORE MELLORLieutenant Colonel · August 13, 1965
- EDWARD BRENDAN SHAWLieutenant (junior grade) · September 5, 1965
- GEORGE JACOB MACKPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- FRANK MAYNARD GARDNERLieutenant · October 26, 1966
- JAMES HERBERT EDWARDSSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- JOSEPH P KRAMERSpecialist Four · April 10, 1967
- ANTHONY JOHN SIVOPrivate First Class · July 24, 1968
- KEVIN CARROLL HANLEYPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- DANNY VINSON SCURFIELDSergeant · October 14, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES REILLYWarrant Officer 1 · May 22, 1970
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.