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CHARLES ELLIS CRUTCHFIELD
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 13, 1944 – March 5, 1966
Service recordCharles Ellis Crutchfield, of Kinmundy, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 5, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 117
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Kinmundy, Illinois (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1966; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 117
- RICHARD NORMAN GEREAUCaptain · March 5, 1966
- ROY GONZALES JRCorporal · March 5, 1966
- ROY F HARBISONSpecialist Four · March 5, 1966
- LOUIS PETER HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
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.