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WALTER CORBIN CARTER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 22, 1945 – April 27, 1969
Service recordWalter Corbin Carter, of Reisterstown, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 60
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
- Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- September 22, 1945
- Home of record
- Reisterstown, Maryland (Baltimore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26W, Line 60
- LARRY DEE BROCKFirst Lieutenant · April 27, 1969
- BENJAMIN BUGARINCaptain · April 27, 1969
- BILLY CLAYTON CHAMBERSSpecialist Four · April 27, 1969
- RICHARD JOE CORDOVAPrivate First Class · April 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RODGER MAGNUS KOEFODCorporal · Panel 26W, Line 64
From Reisterstown
- WILLIAM D ROBINSON JRCaptain · September 18, 1968
- JAMES RUSSELL HAMMERSLAFirst Lieutenant · December 17, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM LEAFSpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
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.