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JERRY LEON CARVER
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 19, 1947 – December 1, 1967
Service recordJerry Leon Carver, of Bridgeport, Alabama, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 1, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 20
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle Crewman (1833)
- Born
- June 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Bridgeport, Alabama (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 20
- STANLEY JOSEPH YUREWICZSergeant · November 30, 1967
- JAMES KENNETH FRYELance Corporal · December 1, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH HAGENPrivate First Class · December 1, 1967
- EARL DAVID MILLERPrivate First Class · December 1, 1967
From Bridgeport
- CLAYTON GEORGE ROGERS JRPlatoon Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT G DANIELMaster Sergeant · March 16, 1969
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.