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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Scot Crismon.

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FRANK SCOT CRISMON

Lieutenant · U.S. Navy

April 21, 1936 – December 30, 1964

Service record

Frank Scot Crismon, of Denver, Colorado, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 30, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 112

Position of Panel 4E 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.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Born
April 21, 1936
Home of record
Denver, Colorado (Denver County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 30, 1964
Age
28
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1964. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 112

From Denver

All 183 names from Denver →

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.