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CECIL WAYNE CAROTHERS
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
April 5, 1946 – September 11, 1968
Service recordCecil Wayne Carothers, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- April 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Altoona, Pennsylvania (Blair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 21
- WILLIAM MHOON WILKERSONPrivate First Class · September 10, 1968
- LAURENCE OLIVER WOODSONLance Corporal · September 10, 1968
- CREED LORENZIO BRYANTLance Corporal · September 11, 1968
- BRUCE LANDON CARTERPrivate First Class · September 11, 1968
From Altoona
- JOSEPH WILLIAM SCHUSTERCorporal · June 1, 1966
- ALFRED JAMES KIBLERLance Corporal · October 6, 1966
- DENNIS M SPAHNSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- WILLIAM JOEL RICKMANPrivate First Class · April 3, 1967
- EDWARD PHILIP SZEYLLERLieutenant · April 4, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD CAREYLance Corporal · April 21, 1967
- ROBERT CARL DAMBECKMaster Sergeant · July 7, 1967
- NICHOLAS CHARLES BIANCONICorporal · July 24, 1967
- GEAN PRESTON CLAPPERChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- SHELDON D SCHULTZChief Warrant Officer 3 · January 5, 1968
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.