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RONALD JAMES CARTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 10, 1948 – May 11, 1969
Service recordRonald James Carter, of Parma, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 46
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- June 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Parma, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 46
- JAMES LELAND SIPESMajor · May 10, 1969
- EDWARD ARNOLD BARLOWSpecialist Five · May 11, 1969
- MILLS BEALE IIISergeant First Class · May 11, 1969
- MALCOLM FRANK BELLSpecialist Four · May 11, 1969
- GARY GENE DAGLEYSpecialist Four · May 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ROBERT MCLAUGHLINPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 51
From Parma
- ROBERT LOUIS GUERINSpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- MICHAEL THEODORE SUKARAPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- ALAN RALPH STEFFENStaff Sergeant · November 26, 1966
- TERRY LEE DAVISPetty Officer Third Class · February 24, 1967
- JOHN EARL SWEESYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- TERENCE JOSEPH KILBANELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- JAMES JOHN ZAVOCKYLieutenant (junior grade) · August 25, 1967
- RONALD BRIAN KERNERPrivate First Class · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT LOUIS SASPrivate First Class · November 24, 1967
- DONALD ALBERT BASALLALance Corporal · November 26, 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.