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HOWARD ROBERT CROTHERS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
January 22, 1942 – May 1, 1968
Service recordHoward Robert Crothers, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 1, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 29
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 22, 1942
- Home of record
- New Martinsville, West Virginia (Wetzel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 1, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 1, 1968; 24 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 29
- PAUL JEFFEREY COCHRANSpecialist Four · May 1, 1968
- ELBERT ELISAH COX JRSergeant · May 1, 1968
- RUSSELL DUANE CRIDERLance Corporal · May 1, 1968
- DANIEL WILLIAM DALEYPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS KEVIN LYONSPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 36
- MICHAEL JAY MASSEYPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 37
- EUSEBIO SOLISPrivate · Panel 53E, Line 41
- WILLIAM PAUL TOWNSEND JRPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 42
From New Martinsville
- ROBERT LEE AGARCorporal · October 29, 1967
- BRIAN LEWIS LONGPrivate First Class · November 17, 1969
- RONAL LOYD WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · February 18, 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.