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GEORGE W COONE JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 21, 1939 – November 11, 1968
Service recordGeorge W Coone JR, of Dickson, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 47
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 21, 1939
- Home of record
- Dickson, Tennessee (Dickson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 39W, Line 47
- MICHAEL WAYNE CHANEYSpecialist Four · November 11, 1968
- RONALD EARL COLVINSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1968
- HOWARD KENNETH COOPERPrivate First Class · November 11, 1968
- JAMES HAMBRICK JRLance Corporal · November 11, 1968
From Dickson
- BILLY EUGENE LANKFORDMajor · December 25, 1967
- CHARLES WALLACE SMITHPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- VERBIN EUGENE DAVIDSONSpecialist Four · April 15, 1969
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.