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ERNEST RAY CARR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
February 27, 1949 – August 31, 1968
Service recordErnest Ray Carr, of Closplint, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 12
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- February 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Closplint, Kentucky (Harlan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 12
- GARY WAYNE COOPER SRSergeant · March 9, 1968
- RICHARD FRANKLIN YATTEAULance Corporal · August 30, 1968
- JOHN EUGENE BARTOCCILieutenant Commander · August 31, 1968
- WILFORD LEE BLUMERPrivate First Class · August 31, 1968
- EDDIE STEPHEN BROWNLance Corporal · August 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN RENIER TUBREFirst Lieutenant · Panel 45W, Line 17
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.