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JAMES EDMUND CARLTON JR
Major · U.S. Marine Corps
July 10, 1939 – April 17, 1967
Service recordJames Edmund Carlton JR, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on April 17, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 39
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Qualified A-6e Bombardier/Navigator (I) (7583)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMA AW 242 MAG 11 1 MAW
- Born
- July 10, 1939
- Home of record
- Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 17, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VMA AW 242 MAG 11 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 39
- BRUCE ELLIOT BOWERSPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RICHARD HAMILTON BRIDGESSpecialist Four · April 17, 1967
- ALBERT FRANKLIN CLEVELANDPrivate · April 17, 1967
- MICHAEL ALLEN DEPROFIOCorporal · April 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MAURICE MCGARVEYLieutenant Colonel · Panel 18E, Line 42
From Birmingham
- SHERMAN ELLIOT WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · July 9, 1965
- CARL WILLIAM MANNPrivate First Class · September 21, 1965
- ROBERT WARREN ALLENPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- GENE WILLIAM WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · October 12, 1965
- JAMES J HOWARDSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- CLEO LOCKETTCorporal · November 8, 1965
- HAROLD JAMES BATTLEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- HAROLD EUGENE WATKINSLance Corporal · November 12, 1965
- CHARLES WILLIAM STOREYStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD EARL HARPERSpecialist Four · January 12, 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.