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ELEC MCCOY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 1, 1946 – October 25, 1967
Service recordElec McCoy, of Oswego, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 69
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Oswego, South Carolina (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 25, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 28E, Line 69
- WAYNE OSCAR MARTINSpecialist Four · October 25, 1967
- HOWARD EDWARD MORSECorporal · October 25, 1967
- DONALD SYLVESTER MOSESSpecialist Four · October 25, 1967
- ROBERT EUGENE MUSSELMANPrivate First Class · October 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LAVERN LEO SALZMANSergeant · Panel 28E, Line 70
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.