Benton Francis Asbury, age 36, from New Albany, Indiana, Floyd county.
Children: Jayne Asbury and Scott Asbury
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, May 31, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile in South Vietnam
Cemetery: Graceland Memorial Park
Source: National Archives
Joseph Darryl Johns, age 20, from New Albany, Indiana, Floyd county.
Parents: Joseph H. Johns
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 3, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Harry Franklin Carver, age 25, from New Albany, Indiana.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, April 10, 1968
Death details: 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.
Cemetery: Memorialized in New Albany National
Source: National Archives, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency