CARVER, HARRY FRANKLIN

Name:  Harry Franklin Carver
Rank/Branch: E5/US Army
Unit: Company E, 15th Engineer Battalion, 9th Infantry Division
Date of Birth: 24 May 1942
Home City of Record: New Albany IN
Date of Loss: 10 April 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 103815N 1065849E (YS166765)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Airboat
Refno: 1124
Other Personnel In Incident: (none missing)

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 June 1990 from one or more of
the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence
with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W.
NETWORK 2020.

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: SSGT Harry F. Carver was assigned to Company E, 15th Engineer
Battalion, 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam. On April 10, 1968, Carver was a
member of an airboat patrol operating about 35 kilometers southeast of
Saigon in Bien Hoa Province, Republic of Vietnam.

At about 1330 hours that day, an enemy force ambushed the airboat with
rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire, wounding several men,
including Carver. Several other members of the patrol reported that Carter
was wounded, was bleeding profusely, and was slumped over in the driver's
seat of the airboat when the craft capsized and Carter disappeared.

Ground, air and water searches were conducted in an attempt to recover
Carter, but to no avail. Area villagers and officials were later questioned,
but no additional information was learned about Carver's fate.

SSGT Carver was classified Killed in action, body not recovered. He is
listed with honor among nearly 2500 Americans who remain unaccounted for in
Southeast Asia because his remains were never found.

Carver's case seem clear. In what experts now believe are hundreds of other
cases, however, things are not so easily explained. Thousands of reports
received now indicate that hundreds of Americans are still held captive in
Southeast Asia. While Carter may never return to the country he proudly
served, we must do all we can to see to it that his death is honored by
returning all our men home.

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01/2020

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SSG HARRY FRANKLIN CARVER

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Staff Sergeant (SSG) Harry Franklin Carver entered the U.S. Army from Indiana and served in Company E, 15th Engineer Battalion, 9th Infantry Division. On April 10, 1968, he was a member of an airboat patrol operating thirty-five miles southeast of Saigon, South Vietnam, near (GC) YS 166 765. In the early afternoon, an enemy force ambushed the airboat with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and small arms fire, wounding several men, including SSG Carver, and causing the airboat to capsize. SSG Carver was last seen slumped over in the driver seat of the airboat and bleeding profusely. Search and rescue efforts to locate him were unsuccessful, and he was not seen again. Today, Staff Sergeant Carver is Memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual's case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.

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