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CLAYTON ANDREW CRAFT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 30, 1949 – April 8, 1968
Service recordClayton Andrew Craft, of Elkview, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 51
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Elkview, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 51
- MELVIN BERNARD BROWNSpecialist Five · April 8, 1968
- ROBERT HOWARD COLEGROVEStaff Sergeant · April 8, 1968
- GENE FRANCIS COLLIERPrivate First Class · April 8, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE DILLOWSpecialist Four · April 8, 1968
From Elkview
- JAMES RONALD BURDETTELance Corporal · August 23, 1966
- WILLIS ARNOLD KARICKHOFFAirman First Class · October 28, 1966
- GUY RICHARD HIVELYSergeant First Class · February 2, 1968
- THOMAS LOWELL WINESCorporal · June 23, 1968
- JOHNNIE MARVIN AYERSSpecialist Five · January 17, 1969
- LEWIS DAYTON MOLESSpecialist Four · August 8, 1970
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.