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DAVID ARTHUR CRAMER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 5, 1949 – February 22, 1968
Service recordDavid Arthur Cramer, of Burlington, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 59
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
- Mortarman (0341)
- Unit (as recorded)
- H CO 2 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Burlington, Wisconsin (Racine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 59
- KENDALL HANSON CLARKSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- WAYNE DOUGLAS CLEMENTSSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- CHARLES WILLIAM CLINESpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- MICHAEL STEPHEN COLLINSSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
From Burlington
- DELL CONLEY GEISEHospitalman · January 26, 1967
- JOHNNIE D SANDERSONPrivate First Class · September 27, 1967
- TIMOTHY JOEL KENNEDYSpecialist Four · December 26, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY HERINGCaptain · August 19, 1968
- DAVID WILLIAM DELAATLance Corporal · June 11, 1970
- THOMAS JOHN ROBERTSCorporal · August 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.