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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jeffrey Charles Crouse.

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JEFFREY CHARLES CROUSE

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 24, 1947 – July 25, 1967

Service record

Jeffrey Charles Crouse, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 25, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 118

Position of Panel 23E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
Born
May 24, 1947
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 25, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 118

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.