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MARK JERALD CARTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 27, 1945 – May 18, 1968
Service recordMark Jerald Carter, of Thonotosassa, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 15
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Powerman (52A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- December 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Thonotosassa, Florida (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 15
- RICHARD CLARK ABBATECorporal · May 18, 1968
- DAVID MELVIN BLANCHARDPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- JOHN THOMAS BURTONSergeant · May 18, 1968
- MELVIN CAMPFIELDPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CARL EUGENE SHIRLEYSergeant · Panel 63E, Line 1
- CHRISTOPHER J SCHERERSpecialist Four · Panel 63E, Line 2
From Thonotosassa
- JOHN OWEN RHODESLance Corporal · April 1, 1967
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.