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DUANE GORDON CORDINER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 6, 1946 – December 14, 1970
Service recordDuane Gordon Cordiner, of Tumwater, Washington, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1970, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 120
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Tumwater, Washington (Thurston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Giang Province that day. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 120
- RANDALL GAYLORD FREEMANWarrant Officer 1 · December 14, 1970
- TERRENCE TURNER JACKSONPrivate · December 14, 1970
- STEVE FREDDIE JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · December 14, 1970
- JEFFERY DAVID KUERSTENSpecialist Four · December 14, 1970
From Tumwater
- JAMES D WILLIAMSONSergeant First Class · January 5, 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.