Vincent R. Kramer
USMC Navy Cross recipient
Vincent R. Kramer (May 31, 1918 – September 17, 2001) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps colonel. He was a guerrilla warfare expert and was awarded the Navy Cross during the Korean War.
Early life and World War II
Vincent R. Kramer was born on May 31, 1918, in Paterson, New Jersey. Upon graduating from Bordentown Military Institute, he attended Rutgers College under a football scholarship. While at Rutgers, he became a member of the Nu Beta chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and in later years served as the Chapter’s Purple Legionaire. In 1941, Kramer graduated with a bachelor's degree from Rutgers. Despite receiving letters of interest from several NFL teams, he went to Officer Candidates School and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
During World War II, Kramer was wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal in late 1942. Kramer was later assigned to the U.S. Naval Group in China, where he trained Chinese guerillas under General Chiang Kai-shek until the end of the war. After the war, he volunteered for an assignment with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Taiwan.
“Vincent R. Kramer” enters the record as uSMC Navy Cross recipient. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vincent, Kramer and USMC can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Vincent R. Kramer” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vincent, Kramer and USMC provides the most credible route into that argument.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96749858. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 2001, 1941 and 1942.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Vincent R. Kramer”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Vincent R. Kramer primary sources, Vincent R. Kramer archive and Vincent research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Vincent R. Kramer”?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Vincent R. Kramer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.