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EDDIE BOYD COOKE JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 30, 1939 – December 19, 1966
Service recordEddie Boyd Cooke JR, of Florence, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 19, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K BTRY 4 BN 12 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 30, 1939
- Home of record
- Florence, South Carolina (Florence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1966
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 60
- SCOTT STILLMAN WEBBERSpecialist Four · December 18, 1966
- COLEY L ANDREWSSergeant · December 19, 1966
- RAYMOND CHARLES CLARKPrivate First Class · December 19, 1966
- DAVID BRUCE CONNPrivate First Class · December 19, 1966
From Florence
- SYLVESTER JACKSON JRSpecialist Four · February 7, 1966
- JOHNNY WILLIAM LLEWELLYNStaff Sergeant · August 5, 1966
- EARL MATTHEWS JRStaff Sergeant · September 9, 1966
- HUGH WILLIAM WELLONSFirst Lieutenant · October 13, 1966
- ANTHONY L FRANKSLance Corporal · August 8, 1967
- HAZEL H HUMPHRIES IIICorporal · August 9, 1967
- MARION LEE MEGGSLance Corporal · November 16, 1967
- ROLAND K DAVISMajor · January 25, 1968
- HARLEY B HACKETT IIICaptain · July 24, 1968
- DURWOOD CAULDERLance Corporal · July 27, 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.