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PAUL CLAUDE CHARVET
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
May 27, 1940 – March 21, 1967
Service recordPaul Claude Charvet, of Grandview, Washington, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on March 21, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 1
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
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 215
- Born
- May 27, 1940
- Home of record
- Grandview, Washington (Yakima County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 21, 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
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 1
- JOHN PAUL CRANDALLSergeant · March 21, 1967
- JOSEPH JOHN DILANDROSergeant · March 21, 1967
- TIMOTHY EASLEYPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- JACK EATONStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1967
From Grandview
- DONNY RAY LAWSONLance Corporal · May 23, 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.