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DOUGLAS JOSEPH CRADEUR
Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
November 15, 1947 – May 5, 1968
Service recordDouglas Joseph Cradeur, of Sulphur, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on May 5, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 9
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- November 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Sulphur, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 9
- RAYMOND LEE COOKCorporal · May 5, 1968
- CORTLAND ELLIS DENNISONCorporal · May 5, 1968
- JIMMIE ALAN DOLENCorporal · May 5, 1968
- JOHN LESLIE DOWNINGPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
From Sulphur
- TERRY LEE ELLENDERCorporal · April 8, 1967
- RUSSELL ELWARD PAGELance Corporal · June 21, 1967
- WILLIAM LEE BRIDGESPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
- JOHN THOMAS HOSKINSCaptain · May 6, 1968
- RUSSELL JOSEPH WEEKLEYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- LARRY JOHN LAPOINTSergeant · August 18, 1968
- HALTON RAMSEY VINCENTCaptain · September 30, 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.