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HERBERT TERRELL CROSS
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 12, 1944 – April 8, 1968
Service recordHerbert Terrell Cross, of Oakdale, Louisiana, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 52
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- January 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Oakdale, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 52
- EDWIN DOUGLAS CONNELLSergeant · April 8, 1968
- CHARLES MATHEW DUTTONSpecialist Five · April 8, 1968
- STANFORD MORRIS GOUGHSpecialist Four · April 8, 1968
- ALLEN EBERLY GROSHONGHospitalman · April 8, 1968
From Oakdale
- BRYFORD GLENN METOYERFirst Lieutenant · January 18, 1964
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.