James MacCraw (Earth-5875)

Private James MacCraw was a member of the UNSC Marine Corps, who was stationed aboard the prowler UNSC Red Horse in October 2552.

Skirmish on the Mona Lisa
Private MacCraw was a new addition to the roster of Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez's squad assigned to the UNSC Red Horse. As a relatively inexperienced Marine, he was the subject of being picked up by Lopez and the other members of the squad despite his combat competence. He participated in the reconnaissance mission aboard the prison ship Mona Lisa. After a brief encounter with unarmed and unarmored sangheili, the Marines were ordered to carry the Cole Protocol, splitting in two teams, to which MacCraw was assigned under Lopez alongside Kwaku Mahmoud and Raj Singh.

While they scouted the medical bay, the Marines found the Office of Naval Intelligence agent John Smith, who had locked himself inside the ship's panic room. When they interrogated Smith about the xenomorphs onboard the ship, Smith broke free, taking a concealed knife and killing Mahmoud with it. MacCraw and Lopez became the only survivors of their team, but they were able to reach the bridge of the Mona Lisa, where they contacted the Red Horse. There, the two discovered that Smith stole their D77-TC Pelican and returned to the prowler, and that a Shiva-class nuclear missile would be sent to the Mona Lisa. Commander Tobias Foucault informed them there were two escape shuttles left in the lower deck of the ship, but that they could only carry one occupant.

While MacCraw and Lopez defended the position of the shuttles, Corpsman Ngoc Benti arrived alongside Clarence, the prisoner Patrick Rimmer and a sangheili survivor, which they nicknamed Henry. Clarence, in fact an Auton synthetic sleeper agent of the Office of Naval Intelligence, was working under strict orders to not allow any of the Marines to leave the ship, killing Rimmer. Henry, grifed by Rimmer's death, attempted to kill Clarence, but Benti, who had been gravely wounded by a xenomorph, killed herself by pushing both herself and Clarence over an incoming xenomorph horde. While MacCraw escaped in one of the shuttles, Henry and Lopez were left to fight for it, but none were able to escape the ship's destruction.