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DAVID H COOPER II
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 22, 1941 – March 25, 1967
Service recordDavid H Cooper II, of Abington, Pennsylvania, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 42
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
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- June 22, 1941
- Home of record
- Abington, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 42
- ROBERT CAROVILLANOSecond Lieutenant · March 25, 1967
- DOUGLAS JOE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- CHARLES BENJAMIN CLANTONCorporal · March 25, 1967
- GEORGE TOLLOVAR COXSergeant · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND ROGER DEMOEPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 43
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.