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RICHARD WAY CRICKENBERGER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 18, 1947 – May 26, 1968
Service recordRichard Way Crickenberger, of Lynchburg, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 66W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66W · 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
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 3 ENG BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Lynchburg, Virginia (Lynchburg (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; 33 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 66W, Line 4
- ROY LEE BRAGERSpecialist Four · May 26, 1968
- JAMES WARREN COCKRELL JRFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 1968
- ARTHUR ALBERT CROWELLCorporal · May 26, 1968
- WILBERT WAYNE CUCHLance Corporal · May 26, 1968
From Lynchburg
- KENNETH ARTHUR SHANNONFirst Lieutenant · March 15, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HUGHESStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1966
- DONALD E CLARK JRCaptain · March 23, 1966
- LARRY FRANCIS WIRTSpecialist Four · April 23, 1966
- HARRY BURKLEY FORBESSpecialist Five · June 29, 1966
- CALVERT JAMES JOHNSONSergeant · November 8, 1966
- STEPHEN FINNEYSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- EUGENE DAVID HARVEYPrivate First Class · June 23, 1967
- RICHARD JUNIOR JONESPrivate First Class · October 13, 1967
- RUSSELL KEITH BLATZSpecialist Four · January 8, 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.