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CHARLES EDWARD CARPENTER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 2, 1941 – February 24, 1969
Service recordCharles Edward Carpenter, of Lebanon, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 24, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 33
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 2, 1941
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Ohio (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 24, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1969; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31W, Line 33
- DANIEL FRANCIS CAHILLSergeant · February 24, 1969
- GILBERT MICHAEL CHAVEZPrivate First Class · February 24, 1969
- WILLIAM C CLINGER IIICorporal · February 24, 1969
- DANIEL COLEMANPrivate First Class · February 24, 1969
From Lebanon
- DAVID LYNN MCCONNAUGHEYPrivate First Class · March 30, 1966
- ROBERT ALLEN HILLPrivate First Class · June 8, 1966
- RONALD PERRY COATESLance Corporal · July 24, 1966
- KYLE SMIDDYSergeant · June 26, 1967
- JERRY DAY LEAKPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- RICHARD ALLEN MULLINSPrivate First Class · July 23, 1968
- RICHARD KENNETH CHILTONPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD CONGER JRSergeant First Class · January 27, 1969
- PHILLIP RAY BAILYPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
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.