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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lindsey Houston Crow.

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LINDSEY HOUSTON CROW

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

January 1, 1931 – November 18, 1965

Service record

Lindsey Houston Crow, of Viola, Missouri, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 3E · Line 100

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
January 1, 1931
Home of record
Viola, Missouri (Barry County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 18, 1965
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

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What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 3E, Line 100

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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.