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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Roy Cruickshank.

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WILLIAM ROY CRUICKSHANK

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

November 9, 1937 – March 10, 1969

Service record

William Roy Cruickshank, of El Jobean, Florida, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 30W · Line 100

Position of Panel 30W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuels) (ABF)
Born
November 9, 1937
Home of record
El Jobean, Florida (Charlotte County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1969
Age
31
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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37 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 30W, Line 100

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.