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CALVIN EMANUEL COOPER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 18, 1948 – May 28, 1969
Service recordCalvin Emanuel Cooper, of Kingstree, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 6
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- September 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Kingstree, South Carolina (Williamsburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 6
- DUANE CURTIS BOWENSpecialist Four · May 28, 1969
- MARVIN CLARENCE BRISSSpecialist Four · May 28, 1969
- RICHARD LYNN BRUMFIELDSergeant · May 28, 1969
- JAMES STEPHEN COLOMBEROSpecialist Five · May 28, 1969
From Kingstree
- SAMUEL DONALD MCCLARYPrivate First Class · February 4, 1967
- JIMMY WILSON LESAINEPrivate · January 21, 1969
- JOE JUNIOR MILESSpecialist Four · February 12, 1969
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.