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DEAN WILBUR KRUEGER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
October 13, 1945 – March 26, 1971
Service recordDean Wilbur Krueger, of Reedsville, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 26, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 80
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- October 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Reedsville, Wisconsin (Manitowoc County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1971
- Age
- 25
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1971. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 80
- JOEL RICHARD HANKINSCorporal · March 26, 1971
- MARTIN REINHOLD HUART JRSergeant · March 26, 1971
- WILLIAM ARTHUR KINDERSpecialist Five · March 26, 1971
- VINCE ROBERT KISELEWSKIPetty Officer Second Class · March 26, 1971
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.