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CRAIG ALDEN VANAKIN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 31, 1949 – April 8, 1970
Service recordCraig Alden Vanakin, of Ashtabula, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 110
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- March 31, 1949
- Home of record
- Ashtabula, Ohio (Ashtabula County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1970; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 110
- MICHAEL JOSEPH YEAGERPrivate First Class · April 8, 1970
- JAMES EDWARD ABBOTTPrivate · April 9, 1970
- NICK ALFRED AGUILAR JRCorporal · April 9, 1970
- CHARLES DOUGLAS ANNISLance Corporal · April 9, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JAMES THOMPSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 12W, Line 109
From Ashtabula
- FREDDIE EDWARD THEISLance Corporal · May 25, 1967
- RONALD LEE RICKARDPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- GREGORY FREDRICK MOSSFORDPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
- JOHN HENRY HALMAN JRLance Corporal · May 22, 1968
- DAVID LOUIS LICATEPrivate First Class · September 22, 1968
- GARY LYNN DUBACHSpecialist Four · February 14, 1969
- JERRY LAVERN ALFERINKPrivate First Class · February 26, 1969
- ROBERT LYNN BEAVERLance Corporal · May 22, 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.