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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Earl Lloyd Cook.

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EARL LLOYD COOK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 12, 1948 – July 9, 1969

Service record

Earl Lloyd Cook, of Washington Court House, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 91

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
September 12, 1948
Home of record
Washington Court House, Ohio (Fayette County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 91

Same unit, same day

From Washington Court House

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.