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CARL JOSEPH ELLERD
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
October 27, 1939 – October 2, 1969
Service recordCarl Joseph Ellerd, of Odessa, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 2, 1969, in North Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 26
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Structural Mechanic (Hydraulics) (AMH)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ATKRON 97 USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64
- Born
- October 27, 1939
- Home of record
- Odessa, Texas (Ector County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1969. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ATKRON 97 USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 26
- JAMES JEWEL FOWLERPetty Officer Second Class · October 2, 1969
- ROY GILLMAN FOWLERPetty Officer Third Class · October 2, 1969
- LEONARDO MEDINA GANChief Petty Officer · October 2, 1969
- JAMES OLIVER GODWINSergeant · October 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL LEE BOWMANPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 17W, Line 25
From Odessa
- JAMES EVERETT LANESpecialist Five · July 15, 1962
- BOBBY LYNN EATONLance Corporal · August 7, 1966
- PHILLIP ARTHUR BRANNONLance Corporal · September 15, 1966
- HARRY GILES BROCKPetty Officer Third Class · November 15, 1966
- RANDALL DAVID JARRELLLance Corporal · December 10, 1966
- RAY B DEBUSK JRLance Corporal · December 21, 1966
- CHARLES EARL FAGGETTStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1967
- ROGELIO SAUCEDOPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- REYNALDO SALINE FERNANDEZCorporal · May 19, 1967
- RUFUS RAYPrivate First Class · June 9, 1967
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.