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CARROL FAYNE MEADOWS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 16, 1930 – July 19, 1969
Service recordCarrol Fayne Meadows, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 21
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 16, 1930
- Home of record
- Spartanburg, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 21
- RONALD IVAN BUCHANANFirst Lieutenant · July 19, 1969
- DONALD KENNETH MINKSpecialist Four · July 19, 1969
- MACK LEE MITCHELLCorporal · July 19, 1969
- MICHAEL THOMAS MITCHELLSergeant · July 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM DAVIS STEELEStaff Sergeant · Panel 20W, Line 23
From Spartanburg
- THOMAS RICE JRSpecialist Four · December 28, 1965
- DONALD THOMAS MITCHELLSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- CHARLES BENJAMIN NORRISSergeant · April 21, 1966
- FRED HAROLD STILLPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- JAMES WESLEY CANTRELLSpecialist Four · November 15, 1966
- JERRY DEAN WORTHYSpecialist Four · February 1, 1967
- LEYBURN W BROCKWELL JRLieutenant Colonel · May 1, 1967
- JAMES EDWIN WOODLance Corporal · June 2, 1967
- JIMMIE LEWISPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- GAREY LEE HENSLEYSpecialist Four · September 15, 1967
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.