Kranch Jr., Leroy Walter
Army Recruit

Leroy Walter Kranch Jr., age 17, from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina.

Source: Associated Press (1961), New York Daily News (1961)