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CARROLL LEON WELTY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 8, 1946 – February 20, 1966
Service recordCarroll Leon Welty, of Bloomfield, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Bloomfield, Missouri (Stoddard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 57
- PEDRO SANTOS-PINEDOPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- CHARLIE KENNETH SCATESSpecialist Four · February 20, 1966
- LARRY DOUGLAS STICEPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- RAYMOND D WEIANDSergeant · February 20, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ROBERT RUTLEDGEStaff Sergeant · Panel 5E, Line 56
From Bloomfield
- JESSE RAY HUGHES JRSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
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.