Craig Alden Van Akin
Specialist Five
919TH ENG CO, 11TH ARMORED CAVALRY, USARV
Army of the United States
Ashtabula, Ohio
March 31, 1949 to April 08, 1970
CRAIG A VAN AKIN is on the Wall at Panel W12, Line 110

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17 Oct 2005

You may be gone but your memory will live on. No one wanted this to happen but we can't do anything now. No one will forget you or what you have done. You're a hero and you're an average person.


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

The 919th Engineer Company lost three men as a result of an accident on 08 Apr 1970. Two were killed in the accident, and a third died almost a month later from injuries received:
  • SFC David W. Dash, Orangeburg, SC (DoI 05/02/1970);
  • SSG Robert J. Thompson, Danbury, CT; and
  • SP5 Craig A. Van Akin, Ashtabula, OH.

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