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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Richard Carbone.

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RICHARD CARBONE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 13, 1949 – May 19, 1969

Service record

Richard Carbone, of Huntington Station, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 52

Position of Panel 24W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
March 13, 1949
Home of record
Huntington Station, New York (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1969
Age
20
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 24W, Line 52

Same unit, same day

From Huntington Station

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.