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GUY BARE CREEP JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 29, 1941 – December 6, 1968
Service recordGuy Bare Creep JR, of York, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 51
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. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- August 29, 1941
- Home of record
- York, Pennsylvania (York County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 51
- GLENN ELDEN HEFLINPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- WILBURT NATHANIEL HINESCorporal · December 6, 1968
- JAMES CLAYTON KERRSergeant · December 6, 1968
- CHARLES ARTHUR LAUERStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1968
- EVERETT DALE RIEPEPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
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
- GARY LEE CRONEStaff Sergeant · January 29, 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.