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JIMMY RAY CROOK
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 1, 1946 – June 3, 1967
Service recordJimmy Ray Crook, of Austell, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 3, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 42
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- F CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- August 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Austell, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1967; 41 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “F CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 42
- TIMOTHY ROY BODDENMaster Sergeant · June 3, 1967
- BILLY RAY BOYDHospitalman · June 3, 1967
- ARTHUR MALCOLM BYRDLance Corporal · June 3, 1967
- AVERY LEE COOPERLance Corporal · June 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LAWSON DOUGLAS GERARDPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 45
From Austell
- EDWARD A MOLDAVANCorporal · October 27, 1967
- RANDY HOFFMAN BROCKSergeant · February 7, 1968
- DAVID DONALD REIDSpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- STANLEY EUGENE URPrivate First Class · February 28, 1969
- RAYMOND MURPHY MORRISCorporal · May 9, 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.