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WILLIAM DON CRAWFORD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 17, 1938 – March 13, 1968
Service recordWilliam Don Crawford, of Pikeville, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 33
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 17, 1938
- Home of record
- Pikeville, North Carolina (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 33
- LEON JOSEPH ATTERIDGE JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- JOSEPH HENRY BYRNEMajor · March 13, 1968
- GEORGE MANUAL CHACALOSPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- GUY FLETCHER COLLINSLieutenant Colonel · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAMON LOPEZSergeant First Class · Panel 44E, Line 38
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.