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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Victor Lincoln Crump.

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VICTOR LINCOLN CRUMP

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 10, 1948 – November 29, 1967

Service record

Victor Lincoln Crump, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 29, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 3

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
January 10, 1948
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 3

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.