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HARRY GIBSON CARTER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 22, 1937 – May 30, 1967
Service recordHarry Gibson Carter, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 30, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 18
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 22, 1937
- Home of record
- Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 30, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 18
- ALFRED ELLISSpecialist Four · May 30, 1967
- NOEL JESUS FELICIANOLance Corporal · May 30, 1967
- JIMMIE LEE JONESCorporal · May 30, 1967
- DANIEL IVAN NELSONPrivate First Class · May 30, 1967
From Montgomery
- FRANK LEONARD MILLER IIICaptain · September 30, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS MOOREPrivate First Class · November 15, 1965
- JAMES WALTER DENNIS JRLance Corporal · March 18, 1966
- GEORGE CANADA JRStaff Sergeant · May 15, 1966
- JIMMIE L SCOTTSpecialist Five · June 1, 1966
- WILLIAM HUGH GARDNER JRSpecialist Four · August 2, 1966
- JAMES ALLEN SKINNERPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- CHARLES TYRONE DAYLance Corporal · September 3, 1966
- THOMAS E DORANSpecialist Four · September 3, 1966
- WILLIAM J SEAWRIGHT JRSpecialist Four · November 15, 1966
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.