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RALPH R CARPENTER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 19, 1946 – November 2, 1968
Service recordRalph R Carpenter JR, of Palatine, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- April 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Palatine, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 7
- TERRY LEE ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · November 2, 1968
- REFUGIO CANALESSpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- EUGENE THOMAS DALY JRSergeant · November 2, 1968
- JAMES EDGAR DUNKIN JRSergeant First Class · November 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERRY LEE ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 7
- EUGENE THOMAS DALY JRSergeant · Panel 39W, Line 7
From Palatine
- ROSS JAMES PATERSONWarrant Officer 1 · February 16, 1966
- JAMES D VANHOOSIERSpecialist Four · December 5, 1967
- JOHN ALEXANDER BLANCO JRFirst Lieutenant · December 17, 1968
- DAVID BRUCE ARNOLDPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
- PAUL EDWARD DOLIKWarrant Officer 1 · February 23, 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.