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GEORGE EUGENE COLES JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 18, 1948 – February 23, 1967
Service recordGeorge Eugene Coles JR, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 78
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Atlantic City, New Jersey (Atlantic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 15E, Line 78
- JOHN LOUIS BYLONSpecialist Four · February 23, 1967
- MICHAEL BOYD CARTERLance Corporal · February 23, 1967
- GREGORY C CLEMENTCaptain · February 23, 1967
- JULIAN WAYNE COUCHPlatoon Sergeant · February 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN RONALD MICKNAStaff Sergeant · Panel 15E, Line 80
- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WATKINSStaff Sergeant · Panel 15E, Line 80
From Atlantic City
- ARFIEN CLIFFORD ALISpecialist Four · February 20, 1966
- ARTHUR KEENSeaman · June 27, 1966
- DENNIS FRANCIS DELASANDROSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- GEORGE LEONARD MILANPrivate · August 25, 1967
- THOMAS F SMITH JRSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH GROHMANGunnery Sergeant · March 22, 1968
- MICHAEL LEE FARMERPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- JAMES WILLIE TERRYPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- ROBERT PATRICK SHELLEMLance Corporal · April 28, 1968
- GERALD ANTHONY MCCALLStaff Sergeant · July 14, 1968
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.