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LORING WILLIAM CARPER JR
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
December 1, 1946 – May 17, 1966
Service recordLoring William Carper JR, of Winchester, Virginia, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 17, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FRC 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Winchester, Virginia (Winchester (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1966; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 69
- EARL GLENN CLARKPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- TONY DEDMANSpecialist Four · May 17, 1966
- DONALD THORPE DEERESpecialist Five · May 17, 1966
- KENNETH EUGENE DUNCANPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
From Winchester
- UPTON FINLEY ASHLEYStaff Sergeant · November 3, 1966
- JERRY MALONE JENKINSSpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- JOHN FRANKLIN MORRISON JRPrivate First Class · December 30, 1967
- DONALD KEITH POWELLCorporal · August 21, 1968
- GREGORY JACKSON FRANKLINPrivate First Class · November 27, 1968
- CHARLES HERBERT HODSON JRSergeant First Class · December 24, 1968
- ROBERT ALLAN WASHINGTONStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1969
- LAWRENCE EUGENE FLETCHERFirst Lieutenant · May 7, 1970
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.