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MERL L CRIPE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 16, 1930 – November 19, 1966
Service recordMerl L Cripe, of Orland, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 87
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 16, 1930
- Home of record
- Orland, California (Glenn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1966
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 87
- MILES DENNIS COOPERPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- JOSEPH COUSETTESpecialist Four · November 19, 1966
- EDMUND VALENTINE DLUGOKINSKISpecialist Four · November 19, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 91
- MARION WATKINSPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 92
From Orland
- LEE CHRIS DIXONCaptain · January 7, 1966
- CLARK D STICKLERCorporal · June 3, 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.