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JAMES ALVIN RAVENCRAFT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 20, 1945 – June 18, 1968
Service recordJames Alvin Ravencraft, of Clarington, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on June 18, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 27
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Clarington, Ohio (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- June 18, 1968
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 27
- ANDREW JOSE PACHECOPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- ARTHUR QUEZADAFirst Lieutenant · June 18, 1968
- JAMES RUSSELL SALISBURYPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- RANDY STEPHEN SCHELLSpecialist Four · June 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERRY FLEMINGPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 20
- JAMES THURMAN GIBSONPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 21
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.