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GARY LEE CRONE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 3, 1941 – January 29, 1968
Service recordGary Lee Crone, of York, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 3, 1941
- Home of record
- York, Pennsylvania (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35E, Line 58
- DENNIS RALPH STANLEYSergeant · January 28, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD WAGNERSpecialist Four · January 28, 1968
- GEORGE WALTER ZENKEWICHPrivate First Class · January 28, 1968
- FRANK WALTER ASPPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL THOMAS MAHONEYSpecialist Five · Panel 35E, Line 61
- CHARLES NICHOLAS TREDINNICKSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 63
- CHARLES EDWARD WHITESergeant Major · Panel 35E, Line 64
From York
- EDGAR WILKEN WEITKAMP JRWarrant Officer 1 · March 23, 1961
- HARRY CHARLES SMITHLance Corporal · December 8, 1965
- RODNEY EUGENE ALTHOFFSpecialist Four · November 4, 1966
- THOMAS EUGENE SAUBLECaptain · March 13, 1967
- WALTER LEROY ALBRIGHTSecond Lieutenant · March 24, 1967
- JOHN STANLEY ALMONEYCorporal · May 3, 1967
- DUAINE KARL FISHERSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- WENDELL LEWIS DAYSergeant · August 17, 1967
- LESTER MILTON NESSCorporal · January 27, 1968
- BERNARD JOHN BURNS JRSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
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.