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LEONARD JAMES CARTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 24, 1948 – June 8, 1967
Service recordLeonard James Carter, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 73
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Winthrop Harbor, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1967; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 73
- JON THOMAS BUSCHCaptain · June 8, 1967
- TIMOTHY RICHARD CLARKPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- JERRY LORENZO DAWCorporal · June 8, 1967
- HOWARD ARTHUR DONALDCorporal · June 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JEFFREY LAWRENCE BARKERPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 72
From Winthrop Harbor
- MICHAEL DONN SCHATZLEYPrivate First Class · March 24, 1966
- JAMES CLYDE WISKURPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- DONNIS GLEN WILLISPrivate First Class · March 26, 1969
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.