Edwin Everett Carson

Private First Class
F CO (LRRP), 52ND INF RGT, 1 INF DIV
Army of the United States
19 November 1948 - 21 October 1968
Fairmont, Minnesota
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1 INF DIV

52ND INF RGT 		Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

Airborne!

The database page for Edwin Everett Carson

13 Nov 2002

A HERO IN OUR HEARTS
YOU ARE MISSED

From his cousin,
SSgt Kevin Dreyer
kevin.dreyer@micrtc.ang.af.mil

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 21 Oct 1968 "A" Company, 1st Aviation Battalion, had a Huey shot down while carrying part of a Long Range Recon Patrol from F Company, 52nd Infantry. Very little is known about the incident, which apparently involved either UH-1D tail number 66-01090 or UH-1D tail number 65-09849 and which took place in Tay Ninh Province. The ten men killed in the incident were
  • Aircrew, A Company, 1st Avn Bn:
    • 1LT Robert R. Wright, Hatboro, PA, pilot
    • WO Richard W. Strong, Greenacres, WA, copilot
    • SP5 Paul L. Cosgriff, West Chester, PA
    • SP4 James P. Gulie, San Diego, CA

  • F Company (LRRP), 52nd Infantry:
    • SGT William P. Cohn, Old Mystic, CT
    • SP4 Lester A. Doan, Butte, MT
    • PFC Edwin E. Carson, Fairmont, MN
    • PFC Gerard Coyle, Scranton, PA
    • PFC Michael A. Randall, Warsaw, IN
    • PFC Steven P. Sorick, Cypress, CA


The point-of-contact for this memorial is
his cousin,
SSgt Kevin Dreyer
kevin.dreyer@micrtc.ang.af.mil
 13 Nov 2002


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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
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