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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Carlton Blackwell.

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JOSEPH CARLTON BLACKWELL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 19, 1948 – November 29, 1970

Service record

Joseph Carlton Blackwell, of Seminary, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1970, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 90

Position of Panel 6W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
September 19, 1948
Home of record
Seminary, Mississippi (Covington County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1970
Age
22
Province
Ninh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1970; 29 of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 90

Same unit, same day

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.