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FRED VINCENT COLE
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army
April 18, 1931 – May 12, 1970
Service recordFred Vincent Cole, of Ft Belvoir, Virginia, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 23
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 20 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- April 18, 1931
- Home of record
- Ft Belvoir, Virginia (Fairfax County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1970
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1970; ten of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 23
- ARDIE RAY COPASSergeant · May 12, 1970
- JOHN ALBERT B DILLARD JRMajor General · May 12, 1970
- THEODORE GLENN DREWPrivate First Class · May 12, 1970
- RAYMOND ROBERT DULAK JRCaptain · May 12, 1970
From Ft Belvoir
- FRANK WARREN CROSSChief Warrant Officer 3 · September 15, 1968
- ROLAND HAROLD NADEAUPrivate First Class · August 2, 1969
- MELVIN WAYNE FINCHCaptain · March 30, 1972
- JOHN WADSWORT CONSOLVO JRCaptain · May 7, 1972
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.