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CARROLL OWEN CRAIN JR
Commander · U.S. Navy
May 13, 1933 – March 8, 1967
Service recordCarroll Owen Crain JR, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on March 8, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 39
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
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VAH 4
- Born
- May 13, 1933
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 8, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VAH 4”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 39
- STEVEN GARY BLOOMLance Corporal · March 8, 1967
- JAMES PATRICK BYRNESergeant · March 8, 1967
- JOSEPH MARIO CAGNACCISpecialist Four · March 8, 1967
- MANUEL CARDENAS IISpecialist Four · March 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RONALD EDMOND GALVINChief Petty Officer · Panel 16E, Line 40
- GEORGE FRANCIS PAWLISHLieutenant Commander · Panel 16E, Line 41
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.