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DONALD COLEMAN CROTTS
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
November 7, 1945 – June 13, 1968
Service recordDonald Coleman Crotts, of Blacksburg, South Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 13, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 7
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Blacksburg, South Carolina (Cherokee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 7
- SEFERINO ALBAREZ JRPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- JAMES DEVRIN CARTERWarrant Officer 1 · June 13, 1968
- DUANE ROGER COTTINGHAMLance Corporal · June 13, 1968
- FRANK OSCAR CUEVASCorporal · June 13, 1968
From Blacksburg
- BOBBY JOE HAMESSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- EVANS S WALKERMaster Sergeant · October 16, 1967
- CURTIS LEVENCE HARDINPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.