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DENNIS OWEN CROCKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 15, 1948 – August 16, 1968
Service recordDennis Owen Crocker, of Bath, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 16, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 31
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Communications Center Specialist (72B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Bath, Maine (Sagadahoc County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 31
- CHARLES DAVID SONNKALB JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 16, 1968
- JOHN DELBERT STRATESpecialist Four · August 16, 1968
- JERRY LEE WILSONSpecialist Four · August 16, 1968
- TERRY RAY ZIMMERMANSpecialist Four · August 16, 1968
From Bath
- MERWIN A DELANO JRPrivate · March 17, 1966
- WAYNE CLIFTON CYRStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1968
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.