CARL FRANCIS ARBOGAST

Arbogast arrived in South Vietnam September 2,1968 and was assigned to A/2/501st. He died in 1969 on FSB Airborne. See accounts from the FB Airborne page here.


 


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

 


PHOTOS

 


 

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

 

 

 


 

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, but I did find the following.
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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