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FAY KENNY COOPER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 28, 1946 – August 12, 1967
Service recordFay Kenny Cooper, of Blythewood, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 12, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 103
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Blythewood, South Carolina (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 103
- GARY PAUL FONTENOTPrivate First Class · August 12, 1967
- RICHARD JOSEPH GILBERTCorporal · August 12, 1967
- LARRY BERNARD GORDIANSpecialist Five · August 12, 1967
- DANIEL JOSEPH HEIBELCorporal · August 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERTO MANDOZA RAMIREZCorporal · Panel 24E, Line 105
From Blythewood
- ALBERT JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 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.