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CAROL ANN ELIZABET DRAZBA
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 11, 1943 – February 18, 1966
Service recordCarol Ann Elizabet Drazba, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. She died on February 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. Her name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 46
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- December 11, 1943
- Home of record
- Dunmore, Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 46
- REYNALDO ROY CAVAZOSPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- DANIEL FERNANDEZSpecialist Four · February 18, 1966
- ANDREW ALBERT GRAZIANOPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- PATRICK JAMES HARRISPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
From Dunmore
- ANTHONY JOSEPH BATTISTASecond Lieutenant · April 16, 1966
- KARL FRANCIS RYNEARSONSpecialist Four · November 1, 1967
- THOMAS WILLIAM MALLOYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1967
- THOMAS MICHAEL WHARTONPrivate · June 18, 1970
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 her yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.