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GEORGE LAFAYETTE COODY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 29, 1947 – May 6, 1969
Service recordGeorge Lafayette Coody, of Summit, Mississippi, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 10
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Summit, Mississippi (Pike County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 10
- MICHAEL LYNN CHRISTMASPrivate First Class · May 6, 1969
- STEEVE ALEXANDER CRAWSHAWStaff Sergeant · May 6, 1969
- RICHARD JOHN DALEYPrivate First Class · May 6, 1969
- IRENARDO FELIX PADRONCaptain · May 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WALTER ALAN ELAMPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 15
From Summit
- JOHN DILLINGER SHAWPrivate · July 7, 1965
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.