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COLEY L ANDREWS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 8, 1941 – December 19, 1966
Service recordColey L Andrews, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ch-34 Helicopter Repairman (67P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- September 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 13E, Line 60
- SCOTT STILLMAN WEBBERSpecialist Four · December 18, 1966
- RAYMOND CHARLES CLARKPrivate First Class · December 19, 1966
- DAVID BRUCE CONNPrivate First Class · December 19, 1966
- EDDIE BOYD COOKE JRStaff Sergeant · December 19, 1966
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD EDWIN POWELLSergeant · Panel 13E, Line 62
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 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.