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GARY ROGER KOOMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 23, 1946 – August 9, 1967
Service recordGary Roger Kooman, of Ontario, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 95
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 175 AVN CO
- Born
- March 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Ontario, New York (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 9, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “175 AVN CO”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 95
- ALLEN SHELDON CHERRYCaptain · August 9, 1967
- MICHAEL JENNING HOTCHKISSSpecialist Four · August 9, 1967
- HAZEL H HUMPHRIES IIICorporal · August 9, 1967
- CHARLES R LATTAMajor · August 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GERALD LEE HOPPERSpecialist Four · Panel 24E, Line 94
- CHARLES R LATTAMajor · Panel 24E, Line 95
From Ontario
- JAMES RODNEY MOOREStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1967
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.