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LESLIE LEE CRANEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 20, 1948 – April 3, 1968
Service recordLeslie Lee Craney, of Portland, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 3, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 48
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- May 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Portland, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 48
- ALBERT WAYNE CUDWORTHPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- STANLEY JOHN CYGONCaptain · April 3, 1968
- EDWARD DAYSpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
- GILBERT DELA PENASpecialist Four · April 3, 1968
From Portland
- LESTER EARL MACDONALDSergeant · June 8, 1966
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM SHAY JRLance Corporal · June 15, 1966
- JAMES M MCDONOUGH JRCaptain · August 2, 1966
- ROBERT GREGORY WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1966
- PAUL LEWIS STIMPSONFirst Lieutenant · April 22, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN TURNERPetty Officer Second Class · May 18, 1967
- HAROLD ELLSWORTH SOUTHARDPrivate First Class · June 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE LANOSpecialist Five · October 29, 1967
- STEPHEN JOHN WHIPPLEPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH DARCYChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
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.