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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Reaumaine Carter.

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LARRY REAUMAINE CARTER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 3, 1951 – August 31, 1970

Service record

Larry Reaumaine Carter, of Monticello, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 25

Position of Panel 7W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
Unit (as recorded)
ENGINEERING CMD
Born
January 3, 1951
Home of record
Monticello, Georgia (Jasper County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 31, 1970
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1970; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 25

From Monticello

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.