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DOUGLAS WAYNE MCCARTY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 15, 1949 – April 11, 1968
Service recordDouglas Wayne McCarty, of Frost, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 23
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Frost, West Virginia (Pocahontas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 23
- JOHN PARKER HOLDEN IISecond Lieutenant · April 11, 1968
- WILLIAM LLOYD KINNARDPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL MILLERPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- GEORGE WASHINGTON MOORESergeant · April 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GUILLERMO A RUIZ-BERNARDSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 25
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.