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EDWARD CRUZ CRUZ
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
October 3, 1945 – June 16, 1968
Service recordEdward Cruz Cruz, of Inarajan, Guam, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 16, 1968, in North Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 2
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- October 3, 1945
- Home of record
- Inarajan, Guam (Guam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 56W, Line 2
- ALAN RAY DUKECorporal · June 16, 1968
- NED TURNER DYBVIGStaff Sergeant · June 16, 1968
- WAYNE ARDELL FERGUSONMajor · June 16, 1968
- MANUEL ANTONIO GALINDEZLance Corporal · June 16, 1968
From Inarajan
- JESUS QUINENE MENOPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
- VICTOR P SANNICOLASSpecialist Four · January 25, 1970
- FRANCISCO M ASANOMASergeant · October 30, 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.