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JAMES PEYTON CROOK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 14, 1943 – February 11, 1968
Service recordJames Peyton Crook, of La Mesa, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 76
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 14, 1943
- Home of record
- La Mesa, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
He died in Binh Long Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 76
- ADALBERTO CACERESSpecialist Four · February 11, 1968
- DONALD REGINALD COLSONSergeant · February 11, 1968
- MONZIE DURREL EDMONDSPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- THOMAS GALE GAINESLance Corporal · February 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RALPH HENRY REIDSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 80
From La Mesa
- ROGER VIRGIL KELLEYLance Corporal · September 29, 1967
- DOUGLAS BRUCE BAUMSergeant · November 18, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH DINAPOLISeaman · December 23, 1967
- PHILLIP DOUGLAS LAFRAMBOISEStaff Sergeant · February 29, 1968
- DIETER RUDOLF VATERPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- MICHAEL MILLER JRPrivate First Class · December 20, 1968
- CRAIG HABERLEINSergeant · June 19, 1969
- RAYMOND TORRESStaff Sergeant · July 10, 1969
- MICHAEL HENRY SHANLEY JRSergeant First Class · December 2, 1969
- KENNETH WAYNE PREVOSTSpecialist Five · March 13, 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.