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RICHARD LYNN CROXEN
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
October 12, 1946 – December 9, 1965
Service recordRichard Lynn Croxen, of Westminster, California, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 9, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 3
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
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- L CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Westminster, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 9, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1965; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “L CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 3
- LARRY DEAN BORSCHELLance Corporal · December 9, 1965
- JOSE LUIS CABALLEROLance Corporal · December 9, 1965
- JOHN BARELAS CORDOVAStaff Sergeant · December 9, 1965
- RONALD LEE KOEHLERPrivate First Class · December 9, 1965
Same unit, same day
- JOSE LUIS CABALLEROLance Corporal · Panel 4E, Line 3
From Westminster
- STEPHEN CALEB FORRESTPrivate First Class · July 4, 1966
- DENNIS LEE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · October 3, 1966
- GALE EDWARD GOTTIPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- HENRY MUCHA JRPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- EARL WILLIAM FERNANDEZStaff Sergeant · September 5, 1967
- JOHN LESTER KITZMILLERPrivate First Class · September 25, 1967
- LESTER LEON PELHAMSergeant · December 9, 1967
- KLAUS DIETER EGOLFSergeant · February 28, 1968
- WARREN GUTHRIE HARDING JRSergeant · February 28, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL GOLDENSpecialist Four · June 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.