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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hubert Clayton Carter.

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HUBERT CLAYTON CARTER

Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 13, 1932 – December 8, 1967

Service record

Hubert Clayton Carter, of Greenville, Ohio, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 63

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 13, 1932
Home of record
Greenville, Ohio (Darke County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 8, 1967
Age
35
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1967; five of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 63

Same unit, same day

From Greenville

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.