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CAREY JAY PRATT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 27, 1948 – July 12, 1970
Service recordCarey Jay Pratt, of Kokomo, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 12, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 13
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Kokomo, Indiana (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 12, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1970; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 13
- RICHARD FLOYD QUINNSergeant · July 12, 1970
- HANS ANTHONY RAJCEVACSpecialist Four · July 12, 1970
- THOMAS WALL JRPrivate First Class · July 12, 1970
- WILLIAM ARTHUR WICKSCorporal · July 12, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL ARMOND DEMASIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 8W, Line 11
- THOMAS WALL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 8W, Line 13
From Kokomo
- JOHN PHILLIP FEWELL JRCaptain · January 28, 1966
- DOUGLAS ARTHUR CLESTERCorporal · June 12, 1966
- JERRY LOUIS SPICERStaff Sergeant · February 3, 1967
- BRUCE ALLEN YODERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RONNIE M SNIDERSergeant · August 11, 1967
- LARRY STEPHEN NEWBURNCorporal · August 29, 1967
- STEVEN THOMAS RUNYONLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- LESLIE DAVID MATCHETTSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- RAYMOND BROWNSpecialist Four · February 7, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES FOUSTSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
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.