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CARL SHERRELL MAYS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 3, 1933 – February 7, 1966
Service recordCarl Sherrell Mays, of Bertrand, Missouri, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 3, 1933
- Home of record
- Bertrand, Missouri (Mississippi County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1966
- Age
- 32
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 5E, Line 13
- ALFRED LEWIS JOHNSONSpecialist Four · February 7, 1966
- DALE RICHARD MCINNISPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- CLIFFORD WAYNE MCROBERTSSergeant · February 7, 1966
- ALEXANDER MONTOYASergeant · February 7, 1966
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.