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SAMMY JOE CROSS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 28, 1946 – November 10, 1968
Service recordSammy Joe Cross, of Hominy, Oklahoma, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 10, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 43
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 91
- Born
- December 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Hominy, Oklahoma (Osage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 43
- ROBERT DEARHART DREWStaff Sergeant · November 10, 1968
- JOSE GARCIASergeant First Class · November 10, 1968
- RICHARD GREENSPANPrivate First Class · November 10, 1968
- EUGENE DONALD HILLCaptain · November 10, 1968
From Hominy
- JAMES HARVEY SHELTONSecond Lieutenant · April 21, 1967
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.