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RICHARD ALLEN CRAWFORD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 23, 1946 – October 30, 1965
Service recordRichard Allen Crawford, of Godfrey, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 30, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- September 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Godfrey, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1965; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 5
- RICHARD ALLEN CESARCorporal · October 30, 1965
- GRANT LEROY CLARKCorporal · October 30, 1965
- GARY EUGENE ELFORDPrivate First Class · October 30, 1965
- GERALD LEE FELTNERHospitalman · October 30, 1965
From Godfrey
- LESLIE DAVID NICKELSPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- RODGER THOMAS GROSSSpecialist Four · June 28, 1967
- STEPHEN FORREST WOODSSpecialist Four · March 6, 1968
- NOEL HURLEYSpecialist Four · October 25, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT EMBRY JRCorporal · November 6, 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.