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JEFFREY MARTI KROMMENHOEK
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
October 27, 1940 – October 25, 1967
Service recordJeffrey Marti Krommenhoek, of Sioux City, Iowa, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on October 25, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 68
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
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 163
- Born
- October 27, 1940
- Home of record
- Sioux City, Iowa (Woodbury County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 25, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 163”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 28E, Line 68
- GARY L GRISSOMSpecialist Four · October 25, 1967
- ALEX RAY HOUSTONCorporal · October 25, 1967
- WAYNE JOHANSONPrivate First Class · October 25, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN JOHNSONPrivate First Class · October 25, 1967
From Sioux City
- DUANE MICHAEL NELSONPrivate First Class · October 10, 1965
- VERNON GLENN CHASEPrivate First Class · February 21, 1966
- DENNIS EDWARD BROWNPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- RONALD HARRY KAISERPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- FREDERICK WILLIAM LENNONSpecialist Four · October 17, 1966
- KENNETT KEITH SCOTTLance Corporal · October 19, 1966
- ROBERT ERNEST HARRISLieutenant Colonel · November 9, 1966
- KELLY FRANCIS COOKColonel · November 10, 1967
- RICHARD JOSEPH BOESHARTSergeant · December 15, 1967
- WILLIAM GEORGE DOWNS JRLance Corporal · March 14, 1968
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.