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REECE A CRITCHFIELD JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 21, 1945 – January 21, 1968
Service recordReece A Critchfield JR, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 21, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 21, 1945
- Home of record
- Upper Sandusky, Ohio (Wyandot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 4
- PAUL REX COMBSSpecialist Four · January 21, 1968
- JOHN JENARO CONTRERASPrivate · January 21, 1968
- MICHAEL DOUGLAS CRUITTPrivate First Class · January 21, 1968
- MICHAEL G DONOVAN IIISpecialist Four · January 21, 1968
From Upper Sandusky
- MEDARD A J RUEHLEFirst Lieutenant · April 11, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD CHADWICKPrivate First Class · May 15, 1967
- NELSON EVERETT SPITLERSeaman · July 29, 1967
- GORDON KAY HUGHESSecond Lieutenant · February 25, 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.