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DENNIS LYNN COOK
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 2, 1947 – May 6, 1968
Service recordDennis Lynn Cook, of Yoder, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 6, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 3
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Born
- July 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Yoder, Indiana (Allen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 3
- JAMES LEE CLARKSergeant · May 6, 1968
- JOSEPH ALLAN CLINGERMANPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- EDWARD W COLLINS IIISecond Lieutenant · May 6, 1968
- JAY ALAN COOKPrivate First Class · May 6, 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.