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BERNARD JAMES COOK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 19, 1947 – September 17, 1968
Service recordBernard James Cook, of Bloomington, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 13
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 39 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- December 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Illinois (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 39 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 13
- DEWAYNE CORBITTPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- EDGAR FELTON DAVISLieutenant Colonel · September 17, 1968
- STEVEN JAMES DAWSONPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- COLOMBO PHIL DELTERZOSergeant · September 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RANDALL LEE FARLOWPrivate First Class · Panel 43W, Line 14
- LARRY DEAN SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 43W, Line 22
- WARREN ALLEN SMITHPrivate First Class · Panel 43W, Line 23
From Bloomington
- GEORGE ELMER BURCHETTStaff Sergeant · September 18, 1965
- WILLIAM REINHART BUFFCorporal · August 30, 1966
- THOMAS LEO HOENIGESSergeant · June 8, 1967
- WILLIAM WALTER LITTLE IIICorporal · November 7, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE MONKMANPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- TIMOTHY LEE WHITESpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT GENE PINKSTONStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1968
- OMAR DAVID JONESFirst Lieutenant · May 12, 1968
- GARY CECIL BAIZEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- THOMAS CARLYLE JACOBSWarrant Officer 1 · September 13, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.