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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Craig Nystul.

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WILLIAM CRAIG NYSTUL

Captain · U.S. Marine Corps

January 4, 1946 – April 29, 1975

Service record

William Craig Nystul, of Coronado, California, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 29, 1975, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
Unit (as recorded)
USS HANCOCK CVA 19
Born
January 4, 1946
Home of record
Coronado, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1975
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1975. In April 1975, 16 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “USS HANCOCK CVA 19”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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Also on Panel 1W, Line 124

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From Coronado

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.