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RAYMOND D CROWDER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 10, 1946 – June 19, 1967
Service recordRaymond D Crowder JR, of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 10
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1967; nine of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 10
- ROBERT JOSEPH CARASpecialist Five · June 19, 1967
- BOBBY LARRY CORNSCorporal · June 19, 1967
- JACK EDWARD COSSINSSpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
- ROBERT EARL CRAYTHORNESpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD LEE FAILS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 11
- RUSSELL LOUIS FILIBERTISpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 11
- BLAINE WILSON LANDERSSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 14
- BOBBY LOUIS MURPHYPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 16
- WAYNE THOMAS SCHUMACHERStaff Sergeant · Panel 22E, Line 19
- WILLIAM NORMAN SCOTTSpecialist Five · Panel 22E, Line 19
- LEONARD VITO TEDESCOPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 21
From Chadds Ford
- CLAUDE ALLEN SMITHLance Corporal · September 23, 1967
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.