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JAMES CROCKRAN
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
July 23, 1947 – March 4, 1968
Service recordJames Crockran, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 62
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
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 23, 1947
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42E, Line 62
- CONRADO FRANCISCO BILDUCIASpecialist Five · March 4, 1968
- RICHARD LEE CLAVERIESpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- DOUGLAS D CROWECaptain · March 4, 1968
- JAMES RICHARD DAVIDSONSergeant · March 4, 1968
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 1965
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.