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RICHARD CRAWFORD
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
November 13, 1932 – December 7, 1968
Service recordRichard Crawford, of Ocala, Florida, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 7, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 55
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- November 13, 1932
- Home of record
- Ocala, Florida (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 55
- DENNIS WAYNE BURIANPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JAMES HOWARD BURTCorporal · December 7, 1968
- MICHAEL JOHN CADORETTESergeant · December 7, 1968
- KARL PETER DENCYPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
From Ocala
- HAROLD GOLDMANPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- JOHN WILLIAM ROWLAND JRCorporal · January 23, 1966
- GEORGE AARON MORNINGSTARSergeant · June 9, 1966
- DONALD GENE VERNONSpecialist Four · November 21, 1966
- SAMUEL T SCRIVENPrivate First Class · May 1, 1967
- JIMMIE LEE THOMASPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- OSCAR LOW THOMAS JRSpecialist Four · October 23, 1967
- DANIEL EUGENE HOPPERLance Corporal · October 28, 1967
- MAURICE THERON WILLIAMSPlatoon Sergeant · February 17, 1968
- LUCIUS ANDERSON JRSergeant · March 14, 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.