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PETER HERMAN KRUSI
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
June 4, 1930 – November 3, 1967
Service recordPeter Herman Krusi, of Smithfield, Utah, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 3, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 16
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VAH 8 USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64
- Born
- June 4, 1930
- Home of record
- Smithfield, Utah (Cache County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 3, 1967
- Age
- 37
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VAH 8 USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 16
- MATTHEW JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · November 3, 1967
- JAMES THURMAN MORRIS JRPrivate · November 3, 1967
- EDMUND LAWRENCE PALCZEWSKICorporal · November 3, 1967
- FRANK J PAPASpecialist Four · November 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HANS HERBERT GRAUERTLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 29E, Line 15
From Smithfield
- RICHARD EDWIN NOBLESpecialist Four · May 9, 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.