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Medals and Awards Purple Heart Medal National Defense Service Medal Vietnam Service Medal with 3 Bronze Stars Vietnam Campaign Medal Combat Infantryman Badge Unit Citations RVN Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Citation RVN Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class |
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CARL FRANCIS ARBOGAST SP4 - E4 - Army - Regular - 101st Airborne Division - Marquette, WI. Length of service 1 years. His tour began on Sep 2, 1968. Casualty was on May 13, 1969 in THUA THIEN, SOUTH VIETNAM (FIREBASE AIRBORNE), HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY, MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS. Body was recovered. Panel 25W - Line 93 |
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BIRTH 18 Aug 1944, New York, New York County
(Manhattan), New York, USA DEATH 13 May 1969 (aged 24), Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế, Vietnam BURIAL -Park Cemetery, Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan, USA. MEMORIAL ID 92231950 |
OBITUARY -I couldn't find an obituary,
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Specialist Four, U.S. Army Carl Francis Arbogast, Jr.
was born on 18 August 1944, in New York, NY, the son of Carl and Erma
Arbogast. He graduated from Marquette (MI) Senior High School in 1962
and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Michigan
University in August 1967. He was a member of Pi Delta Phi social
fraternity and the American Contract Bridge League. On 13 May 1969, Specialist Four Carl F. Arbogast, Jr. was serving with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. While stationed at a fire support base that day, the FSB came under ground attack from a hostile force. SP4 Arbogast was killed in action when he sustained multiple fragmentation wounds. |
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