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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 Carroll James Hebert.

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CARROLL JAMES HEBERT

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

September 7, 1945 – November 29, 1966

Service record

Carroll James Hebert, of Lafayette, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 29, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 129

Position of Panel 12E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
G CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
September 7, 1945
Home of record
Lafayette, Louisiana

Casualty

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

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1966; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 129

From Lafayette

All 21 names from Lafayette →

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.