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GEORGE TOLLOVAR COX
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 22, 1939 – March 25, 1967
Service recordGeorge Tollovar Cox, of Tampa, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 22, 1939
- Home of record
- Tampa, Florida (Hillsborough County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 42
- ROBERT CAROVILLANOSecond Lieutenant · March 25, 1967
- DOUGLAS JOE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- CHARLES BENJAMIN CLANTONCorporal · March 25, 1967
- DAVID H COOPER IISecond Lieutenant · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS JOE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 42
- JAMES WILLIAM EVANSPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 43
- PEDRO INCARNACION GARCIASergeant · Panel 17E, Line 43
- ROCKWELL SELDEN HERRONPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 44
- DOUGLAS EUGENE MOORESergeant · Panel 17E, Line 46
- DONALD RAY SANDERSPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 47
From Tampa
- THOMAS ISAAC LEDBETTERCaptain · June 19, 1964
- HENRY JOSEPH GALLANTMaster Sergeant · July 13, 1965
- JOHN BELL JRLance Corporal · August 18, 1965
- ERICH SIMKAITISSpecialist Five · September 9, 1965
- LAURENCE MICHAEL KINGCorporal · September 28, 1965
- MACK CECIL COXSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GUY HECTOR MCCAREYMajor · November 27, 1965
- RICHIE HUMES SCHMITTLance Corporal · December 9, 1965
- JOHNNIE GRANTSpecialist Four · February 7, 1966
- ISIAH FOSTERLance Corporal · March 23, 1966
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.