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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Jay Crandall.

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RONALD JAY CRANDALL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 6, 1947 – June 23, 1967

Service record

Ronald Jay Crandall, of Mt Vision, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 53

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
HHT 3 SQD 4 CAV 25 INF DIV
Born
May 6, 1947
Home of record
Mt Vision, New York (Otsego County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 23, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 53

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.