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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carroll David Abbott.

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CARROLL DAVID ABBOTT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 18, 1945 – October 29, 1966

Service record

Carroll David Abbott, of Sevierville, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 125

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
January 18, 1945
Home of record
Sevierville, Tennessee (Sevier County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 29, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 125

Same unit, same day

From Sevierville

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.