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CHARLES EDWARD COX
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 3, 1939 – November 17, 1965
Service recordCharles Edward Cox, of Lexington, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 17, 1965, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 73
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 2 BN 2 CAV
- Born
- September 3, 1939
- Home of record
- Lexington, Alabama (Lauderdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 17, 1965
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
161 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1965; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Battle of the Ia Đrăng Valley was under way. In the Ia Đrăng Valley (14–18 November 1965), battalions of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fought North Vietnamese regulars at Landing Zones X-Ray and Albany — the first major battle between the two armies and the first great test of the helicopter war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 3E, Line 73
- CHARLES ALLEN COLLINSSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- DONALD C CORNETTFirst Lieutenant · November 17, 1965
- MACK CECIL COXSergeant · November 17, 1965
- DONALD ELLIS CRANEPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
From Lexington
- DON LESLIE MICHAELSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
- JERRY DWAIN HILLCorporal · November 14, 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.