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FRANKLIN ANGEL CARAS
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
January 19, 1934 – April 28, 1967
Service recordFranklin Angel Caras, of Spanish Fork, Utah, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on April 28, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 105
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115E)
- Born
- January 19, 1934
- Home of record
- Spanish Fork, Utah (Utah County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 28, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 105
- TERRY LYNN YAWNPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- DONALD RAYMOND YOUNGPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- JOSEPH JAMES BORICKPrivate First Class · April 28, 1967
- PAUL JOSEPH BRAUNLance Corporal · April 28, 1967
From Spanish Fork
- MARVIN LEROY LINDLEYSergeant · January 31, 1966
- LARRY LEE THORNTONLance Corporal · June 29, 1968
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.