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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dannie Arthur Carr.

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DANNIE ARTHUR CARR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 30, 1947 – July 3, 1969

Service record

Dannie Arthur Carr, of Sevierville, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 50

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 30, 1947
Home of record
Sevierville, Tennessee (Sevier County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1969
Age
22
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From Sevierville

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.