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EDWARD JAN COX
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 11, 1930 – January 24, 1966
Service recordEdward Jan Cox, of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 84
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 11, 1930
- Home of record
- Jeannette, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1966
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 84
- ROY SHIGERU KOBAYASHICaptain · January 23, 1966
- DELMAR GEORGE BOOZECaptain · January 24, 1966
- RAYMOND LEWIS BOWEN JRSpecialist Four · January 24, 1966
- LAWRENCE NEAL HELBERCaptain · January 24, 1966
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD ARTHUR SULLIVANPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 85
From Jeannette
- DAVID RAYMOND BALZARINIPrivate First Class · January 19, 1969
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.