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AARON CRUSOE MURRELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 8, 1936 – October 30, 1965
Service recordAaron Crusoe Murrell, of Trenton, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- November 8, 1936
- Home of record
- Trenton, North Carolina (Jones County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1965
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3E, Line 7
- RAYES CISNEROS FLORESPrivate First Class · October 30, 1965
- ROBERT STEPHEN RUCHCorporal · October 30, 1965
- HAROLD HENRY SCHOCKLance Corporal · October 30, 1965
- PHILIP MARION SENSCorporal · October 30, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JACKIE JUNIOR FULGHUMPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 6
From Trenton
- WILLIE C WALKERCorporal · December 12, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.