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LAWRENCE HOWARD CARSON
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
December 22, 1943 – May 31, 1968
Service recordLawrence Howard Carson, of Springfield, Missouri, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 6
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Springfield, Missouri (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 31, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1968; 54 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 62W, Line 6
- PHILLIP LLOYD BROCKMANPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- CALVIN FRANKLIN BUTTERFIELDPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT BYERS JRLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
- GEORGE GILBERT CASON JRCorporal · May 31, 1968
From Springfield
- SHEPHEN HIETT PHILLIPSSergeant · July 18, 1965
- WILBERT CLAUDE DAVISSergeant · October 12, 1965
- DAVID MARSHALL KNIGHTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- DOUGLAS BLAKE HAMILTONPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JACK EUGENE GOSS IIPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- RANDALL KERWIN RUSSELLSergeant · July 6, 1967
- ROBERT DEAN CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- JAMES DOYLE STOKESPrivate · November 30, 1967
- CHARLES KIRBY WILCOXCaptain · January 9, 1968
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.