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DOUGLAS EUGENE CROOKS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 14, 1949 – April 2, 1971
Service recordDouglas Eugene Crooks, of Boone, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 101
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- March 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Boone, Iowa (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 101
- GLENN LEE HATAFirst Lieutenant · April 2, 1971
- JAMES ROBERT MEADEChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 2, 1971
- JAMES EDWARD SUTHERLANDPrivate First Class · April 2, 1971
- JOSEPH MICHAEL YOUNGERMANPrivate · April 2, 1971
From Boone
- DENNIS DEAN FERGUSONCaptain · March 20, 1966
- FREDERICK KENNETH DEAVERPrivate · August 23, 1966
- GENE WESLEY BROWNMajor · July 8, 1967
- KENT CARTER WOLFSpecialist Five · August 3, 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.