Richard A. Carter

Philadelphia Memorial Panel: Panel 5

National Memorial Panel / Row: East 22 / 86

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1944

Neighborhood: Germantown

High School: Thomas Edison High School

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Branch of Service: Marine Corps

Rank: CPL

Date of Casualty: 30-Jun-1967

Province of Casualty: Quang Nam

"The last six months have been hell," Carter wrote home from Vietnam. The 23-year-old Marine rifleman bad taken part in several search-and-destroy missions before he was killed in Da Nang on June 30, 1967. He had been assigned to Company B of the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. Carter had attended Thomas Edison High School and worked for a cabinetmaker before enlisting in October 1962. He was survived by his parents, a brother and a sister.