Corporal Crofts was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was listed as Missing in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on December 2, 1950. He was presumed dead on December 31, 1953. CPL Crofts' remains have been recovered and accounted for. Interment at a private cemetery in his home town of Shelley, Idaho. CPL Crofts name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.