Harry Franklin Carver
Rank/Branch: E5/US Army
Unit: Company 5, 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)

    Harry F. Carver was assigned to Company E, 15th Engineer Battalion, 9th Infrantry 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 Carver was wounded, was bleeding profusely, and was slumped over in the driver's seat of the airboat when the craft capsized and Carver disappeared.

     Ground, air and water searches were conducted in an attempt to recover Carver, 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 seems 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 Carver 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.

"Amen"

    If you have never joined a "cause" before, now is a good time to "embrace" this one.  So much still has to be done to ensure that "every" POW-MIA is brought back home.  These "precious" men never faultered when this country ask them to go fight a war, and it's time the people in this country "embraced" this cause to the fullest.  The bureaucrats in Washington think if they ignore "it", "it" will go away. Well, it's NEVER going to go away!!!!  Too many loved ones are still not accounted for, and the rumors of survivors in  POW "camps" (and I might add from the people who live in that country).....this generation will NOT just accept what the government tells us.  It's an embarrassing situation for them.......I understand that.  But it's time to pull all the "skeletons" out of the closet.  Let's bring them home.  Won't you help us?

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It is essential that you contact your senators and congressmen and tell them you demand a full accounting of our service men, and that you expect them to bring our POW's home.  God Bless You

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