CARPENTER, NICHOLAS MALLOR

REMAINS RETURNED  01/89  Identified 4/91

Name: Nicholas Mallor Carpenter
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 30 July 1942
Home City of Record: CINCINNATI OH
Date of Loss: 24 June 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 183700 North  1053900 East
Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: JOSEPH MOBLEY Bombadier/Navigator, returnee
Refno: 1214

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2023

REMARKS: PROB DIED IN WRECKAGE - EGRESS

Carpenter was the pilot.

REMAINS RETURNED  01/89  Identified 4/91

SPIN OUT OF CONTROL, MOBLEY EJECTED.  NGHE AN NEAR VINH

No further information available at this time.
 

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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:01:26 +0000 (UTC)
From: Pamela Wages <pjwages@yahoo.com>

I have 2 POW bracelets from Lt. Nick Carpenter (6-25-68).  I have carried his memory for years.

I am so grateful for his service and the family's sacrifices.  I would love to give his family these
bracelets if they want them. I can be reached at pjwages@yahoo.com. I am a widow myself and
know how the slightest thing can bring comfort - or pain.  I only want to bring comfort. I have
prayed for Nick over the years but have just now researched what happened to him and how
to find him or his family. The family is still in my prayers!

 
Sincerely,
Pamela Wages


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01/2020

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LCDR NICHOLAS MALLORY CARPENTER

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On March 27, 1991, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Nicholas Mallory Carpenter, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Commander Carpenter joined the U.S. Navy from Ohio and was a member of Attack Squadron 35, embarked aboard the USS Enterprise. On June 24, 1968, he was the pilot of an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 152949) on a mine laying mission at Kim Ma Water Interdiction Point near Vinh, North Vietnam. Lieutenant Commander Carpenter's Intruder was downed by anti-aircraft fire during the mission, and he was killed in the crash. His body could not be recovered at the time. In September 1990, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of unidentified remains to U.S. custody. The next year, forensic analysis identified the remains as those of LCDR Carpenter. 

Lieutenant Commander Carpenter is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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