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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bertram Anthony Carr.

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BERTRAM ANTHONY CARR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 3, 1942 – June 1, 1969

Service record

Bertram Anthony Carr, of Louisville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 1, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 35

Position of Panel 23W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
Unit (as recorded)
B BTRY 2 BN 319 ARTY 101 ABN DIV
Born
October 3, 1942
Home of record
Louisville, Kentucky (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 1, 1969
Age
26
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 35

From Louisville

All 178 names from Louisville →

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.