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HENRY ALBERT COONS
Commander · U.S. Navy
November 25, 1933 – February 28, 1968
Service recordHenry Albert Coons, of Germantown, New York, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on February 28, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 61
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. Navy
- Rank
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 35
- Born
- November 25, 1933
- Home of record
- Germantown, New York (Columbia County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- February 28, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 35”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 61
- RONALD TERRY KRANSICorporal · February 27, 1968
- DENNIS PATRICK CLANCYPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- KYLE J COLESLance Corporal · February 28, 1968
- JOHN STANFORD COLLIERPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- KENNETH LYNN COOKSeaman · February 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS STEGMANLieutenant Commander · Panel 41E, Line 74
From Germantown
- ERNEST REGINALD LASHER JRSpecialist Four · May 3, 1970
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.