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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dean Dennis Crane.

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DEAN DENNIS CRANE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 7, 1945 – June 21, 1967

Service record

Dean Dennis Crane, of Neshkoro, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 29

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 7, 1945
Home of record
Neshkoro, Wisconsin (Marquette County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 21, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 29

Same unit, same day

From Neshkoro

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.