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OREN LEE CROOK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 15, 1949 – March 6, 1970
Service recordOren Lee Crook, of Doniphan, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 87
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Doniphan, Missouri (Ripley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 87
- WALTER LEE BECKWITH JRSpecialist Four · March 6, 1970
- THOMAS CLIFFORD CHANEYCorporal · March 6, 1970
- MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNELLPrivate First Class · March 6, 1970
- JAMES WARREN FINZELMaster Sergeant · March 6, 1970
Same unit, same day
- WALTER LEE BECKWITH JRSpecialist Four · Panel 13W, Line 87
- ROBERT LEWIS WEBSTERPrivate First Class · Panel 13W, Line 90
From Doniphan
- LAFFEY FRANKLIN STRAITPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JERRY LEE WILSONSpecialist Four · August 16, 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.