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CARROLL EDWARD ADAMS JR
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CARROLL E ADAMS JR
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POSTED ON 4.25.2002
POSTED BY: LTC William F. Adams
BG Carroll E. Adams
BG Adams departed for Vietnam in January, 1970 and assumed command of the 937th Engineer Group, a Corps-level Engineer group. The week before his death, his eldest son, 1LT Robert A. Adams was critically injured while rescuing the pilot and copilot of a Cobra attack helicopter which had crashed near his base. General Adams was able to see his son before his own fatal helicopter crash.
On May 12th, 1970, while conducting an inspection tour of his widely dispersed units, General Adams' helicopter came under hostile fire from a North Vietnamese antiaircraft machinegun and was shot down. Only one person on board the helicopter, Command Sergeant Major Robert Elkey, survived the crash by jumping from the stricken aircraft as it fell to the earth.
General Adams was buried with full military honors at the West Point cemetary at the United States Military Academy. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Ronne Adams, his daughter, Ronne Adams Israel, and his three sons, LTC (Ret.) Robert A. Adams (USMA '68), LTC (Ret.) Jonathan P. Adams (USMA '74) and LTC William F. Adams (USMA '81).
General Adams left behind a legacy of compassion and engendering strong loyalty in all who knew and served under him. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District renamed a survey vessel the "Adams" in his honor in 1972. When that vessel was retired from service in 1997, the District commissioned its replacement, the "Adams II" in his honor. The State of Massachusetts dedicated a intersection in his memory on Route 2, the Mohawk Trail, near his boyhood home in Charlemont, Massachusetts. His name is also inscribed on a memorial plaque of West Point graduates killed in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts in Cullum Hall at West Point. The command building of the 937th Engineer Group, now stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, was named Adams Hall in his honor.
In 25 years of selfless service to our nation, General Adams epitomized the West Point motto, "Duty, Honor, Country."
POSTED ON 4.30.1999
POSTED BY: CLAY MARSTON
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THIS FINE CAREER UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICER WHOSE NAME SHALL LIVE FOREVER MORE
BRIGADIER GENERAL
CARROLL EDWARD ADAMS JR.
WAS A DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE OF THE
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
AT WEST POINT, NEW YORK
IN THE CLASS OF 1945
AND AT THE TIME OF HIS UNTIMELY DEATH
AT THE AGE OF 46
WAS THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE
937th ENGINEER GROUP
AMONG THE MILITARY DECORATIONS
HE WAS AWARDED WERE
THE LEGION OF MERIT with OAK LEAF CLUSTER
THE USAF COMMENDATION MEDAL with 3 OAK LEAF CLUSTERS
THE AIR MEDAL with OAK LEAF CLUSTER
THE PURPLE HEART MEDAL
- DUTY - HONOR - COUNTRY -
- THE LONG GRAY LINE -
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
NOR SHALL YOU EVER BE
CARROLL EDWARD ADAMS JR.
WAS A DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE OF THE
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
AT WEST POINT, NEW YORK
IN THE CLASS OF 1945
AND AT THE TIME OF HIS UNTIMELY DEATH
AT THE AGE OF 46
WAS THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE
937th ENGINEER GROUP
AMONG THE MILITARY DECORATIONS
HE WAS AWARDED WERE
THE LEGION OF MERIT with OAK LEAF CLUSTER
THE USAF COMMENDATION MEDAL with 3 OAK LEAF CLUSTERS
THE AIR MEDAL with OAK LEAF CLUSTER
THE PURPLE HEART MEDAL
- DUTY - HONOR - COUNTRY -
- THE LONG GRAY LINE -
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
NOR SHALL YOU EVER BE