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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jackie Charles Carter.

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JACKIE CHARLES CARTER

Seaman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

August 23, 1948 – November 1, 1968

Service record

Jackie Charles Carter, of San Jose, California, served as a Seaman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 1, 1968, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 71

Position of Panel 40W 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman Apprentice (SA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Unit (as recorded)
USS WESTCHESTER COUNTY LST 1167
Born
August 23, 1948
Home of record
San Jose, California (Santa Clara County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1968
Age
20
Province
Go Cong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

67 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Go Cong Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “USS WESTCHESTER COUNTY LST 1167”, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 71

Same unit, same day

From San Jose

All 142 names from San Jose →

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.