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VARISE HELTON CRABTREE JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 31, 1946 – October 11, 1968
Service recordVarise Helton Crabtree JR, of War, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 11, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 45
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 31, 1946
- Home of record
- War, West Virginia (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 11, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date October 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 45
- DOUGLAS COMPTONSpecialist Five · October 11, 1968
- WILLIE SONNY DAVISPrivate · October 11, 1968
- WILLIE C FERGUSON JRLance Corporal · October 11, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS HALEFirst Lieutenant · October 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK STEVEN LAIRDPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 48
From War
- EARL GENE PHILLIPSSpecialist Four · November 6, 1965
- WAYMAN DEWEY MORRISPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
- ROBERT LEE LEMONSSpecialist Four · May 12, 1970
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.