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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Nathan Eugene Crouch.

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NATHAN EUGENE CROUCH

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 20, 1947 – January 27, 1969

Service record

Nathan Eugene Crouch, of Farmington, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 92

Position of Panel 34W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rough Terrain Forklift And Loader Operator (62M)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
May 20, 1947
Home of record
Farmington, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1969
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 92

Same unit, same day

From Farmington

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.