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WILLIAM ANDERSON CRENSHAW
Captain · U.S. Army
July 24, 1939 – May 4, 1967
Service recordWilliam Anderson Crenshaw, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 36
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 24, 1939
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 4, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 19E, Line 36
- ALLEN FRED CHAVESPrivate First Class · May 4, 1967
- RALPH WOODWARD CRYTZER JRPrivate First Class · May 4, 1967
- PAUL JONES DENNISSpecialist Four · May 4, 1967
- ALEXANDER FOREPrivate First Class · May 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FRANKLIN DELANO STALLINGSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 19E, Line 41
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.