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LESLIE LOUIS CARTER
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
November 3, 1943 – July 1, 1968
Service recordLeslie Louis Carter, of Jamestown, North Dakota, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 1, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 27
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ATSB RACH GI NSA USNAVFORV
- Born
- November 3, 1943
- Home of record
- Jamestown, North Dakota (Stutsman County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 1, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date July 1, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 27
- RICHARD FLOYD BURNHAM JRSpecialist Four · July 1, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL BUTTSPrivate First Class · July 1, 1968
- TERRY LEE COGGINSPrivate First Class · July 1, 1968
- JAMES LARRY CROCKETTStaff Sergeant · July 1, 1968
From Jamestown
- FRED WALTER JANSONIUSPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- DOUGLAS CLEMENS KLOSESpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- LEON DAVID COXStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1969
- WESLEY ERWIN MUELLERSpecialist Four · July 25, 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.