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JAMES DALE CRUSE
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
September 28, 1945 – June 15, 1968
Service recordJames Dale Cruse, of Paducah, Kentucky, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 24
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Paducah, Kentucky (Mccracken County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “M CO 3 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 24
- LARRY GENE CLARKPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- RICHARD DOUGLAS CONKLINPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- DENNIS CRANECorporal · June 15, 1968
- MICHAEL DENNIS DAVIDSpecialist Four · June 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM IVAN MERCERPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 57W, Line 29
From Paducah
- BILLY JOE WATKINSStaff Sergeant · June 21, 1967
- KENNETH RAY WRIGHTLance Corporal · June 27, 1967
- BILLIE TAYLOR PRESSONCaptain · September 20, 1967
- DON POTTERSpecialist Four · November 3, 1967
- GIVEN WEST BRADLEYSpecialist Four · February 11, 1968
- JAMES A WILLIAMSStaff Sergeant · August 13, 1968
- WILLIAM LEON VICKChief Warrant Officer 3 · August 30, 1968
- JOHN R HORNSBYSpecialist Four · March 8, 1969
- ARTHUR DALE LINDSEYPrivate First Class · March 9, 1969
- ROY RUDOLPH WHITESIDEPetty Officer First Class · October 11, 1969
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.