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CORNELIUS A MCCAFFERTY JR
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
September 24, 1940 – February 17, 1969
Service recordCornelius A McCafferty JR, of Mansfield, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 17, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 50
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signalman (SM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- September 24, 1940
- Home of record
- Mansfield, Ohio (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 17, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date February 17, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 50
- ROBERT JAMES HALLSergeant · February 17, 1969
- KENNETH GEORGE LIEBHABERPrivate First Class · February 17, 1969
- WELDON GEORGE LYNNPrivate First Class · February 17, 1969
- ROY EDWARD PITTSPrivate First Class · February 17, 1969
From Mansfield
- LUTHER EDMOND RITCHEY JRLance Corporal · October 8, 1963
- TYRONE WADE HISEYWarrant Officer 1 · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES MICHAEL TODDPrivate First Class · November 8, 1966
- STANLEY RICHARD GLEISINGERCorporal · November 26, 1966
- ROBERT FRANK RATHBUNPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- WILLIAM THEODORE NORRISSpecialist Five · March 17, 1967
- MICHAEL HENRY JULIANPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- EDUARD ADOLPH AUERStaff Sergeant · September 19, 1967
- ROBERT LEE FUQUA JRPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- WILLIAM DOUGLAS REEVES JRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
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.