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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bernard Louis Coro.

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BERNARD LOUIS CORO

Corporal · U.S. Army

May 29, 1951 – September 28, 1971

Service record

Bernard Louis Coro, of Medway, Maine, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 29

Position of Panel 2W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
May 29, 1951
Home of record
Medway, Maine (Penobscot County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 28, 1971
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1971; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 29

Same unit, same day

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.