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CHARLES EDWARD COOPER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 17, 1938 – April 15, 1966
Service recordCharles Edward Cooper, of Belle Plaine, Kansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Born
- February 17, 1938
- Home of record
- Belle Plaine, Kansas (Sumner County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 114
- LEWIS MCCOY THOMASPrivate First Class · April 14, 1966
- ROBERT LEE VADENSergeant · April 14, 1966
- DAVID NATHANIEL EVILSIZERPrivate First Class · April 15, 1966
- LUSTER CLARK FRIELPrivate First Class · April 15, 1966
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.