The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ennis Eugene Crow.

The Wall › Panel 33E › New Mexico › Ennis Eugene Crow

ENNIS EUGENE CROW

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 1, 1947 – January 2, 1968

Service record

Ennis Eugene Crow, of Lovington, New Mexico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 17

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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.

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 1, 1947
Home of record
Lovington, New Mexico (Lea County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 2, 1968
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 17

Same unit, same day

From Lovington

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.