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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Dennis Crow.

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JAMES DENNIS CROW

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

January 24, 1949 – April 27, 1969

Service record

James Dennis Crow, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 61

Position of Panel 26W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
O-1/U-6 Airplane Repairman (67B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
January 24, 1949
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 27, 1969
Age
20
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Phoenix

All 207 names from Phoenix →

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.