Seaman Carrol William Minor entered the U.S. Navy from South Carolina and was a member of the Naval Support Activity: Detachment Cua Viet. On December 9, 1968, he was a crew member aboard landing craft LCM 873 when the vessel was conducting a weapons test and target firing run off the coast of North Vietnam. While offshore of Tiger Island, the ship came under enemy artillery and small arms fire. Seaman Minor was within five feet of the pilot's cabin when it received a direct hit from a 75mm artillery shell.  A crew member observed SN Minor severely wounded, but when he checked again soon after SN Minor was missing. He was believed to have been lost overboard in the vicinity of (GC) YD 500 980. Searches failed to locate him and he remains unaccounted for. Today, Seaman Minor 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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