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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 Herbert Harold Crowder.

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HERBERT HAROLD CROWDER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 9, 1937 – January 17, 1967

Service record

Herbert Harold Crowder, of Pulaski, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 43

Position of Panel 14E 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 9, 1937
Home of record
Pulaski, Virginia (Pulaski County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 17, 1967
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 43

Same unit, same day

From Pulaski

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.