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HARLAN MERDEAN CRAFT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 25, 1945 – March 12, 1969
Service recordHarlan Merdean Craft, of Temple, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 25, 1945
- Home of record
- Temple, Texas (Bell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 18
- CLIFFORD MARKWOOD CORKPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- JACKIE LAWRENCE CROSBYCorporal · March 12, 1969
- LAWRENCE ROBERT ESSERSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- RONALD LYNN FRANCELance Corporal · March 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PAUL HOWARD JACKSON JRCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 20
From Temple
- EVERETT ALBERT WYATT JRSergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- MICHAEL DOUGLAS GRAYPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- HAROLD DWAINE DANIELSSergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOSEPH KERR BUSH JRCaptain · February 10, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES DROBENAStaff Sergeant · February 23, 1969
- DONALD PRIESTER CANDLERSecond Lieutenant · August 8, 1969
- MILO CLINTON ISAACSSergeant First Class · October 22, 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.