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LEONARD ERWIN CRUCE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 4, 1947 – June 6, 1968
Service recordLeonard Erwin Cruce, of Hobbs, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 27
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- December 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Hobbs, New Mexico (Lea County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 27
- FRANK ALLOYSIUS CONDONSergeant First Class · June 6, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM CUPPCorporal · June 6, 1968
- RICHARD SHIRLEY DAVIS JRSpecialist Four · June 6, 1968
- STEVEN FRANCIS DOLIM JRSpecialist Four · June 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED MCCULLOUGHPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 59W, Line 9
- ROGER WILLIAM SHIPLEYSergeant · Panel 59W, Line 14
From Hobbs
- RONNIE LEE NOSEFFCorporal · September 25, 1966
- JIMMIE LEON PLATOHospitalman · November 15, 1966
- HOWARD JACOB RICECorporal · June 8, 1967
- STANLEY W MCPHERSONSpecialist Four · September 19, 1967
- CHARLES LEE GASSLance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- JERRY MARCO ROBERTSSpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- CHARLES DANIEL FOLEYCaptain · May 23, 1970
- JAIME PACHECOSpecialist Four · May 25, 1972
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.