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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Henry Conrad Cousineau.

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HENRY CONRAD COUSINEAU

Seaman Recruit · U.S. Navy

November 3, 1920 – January 4, 1968

Service record

Henry Conrad Cousineau, of Swansea, Massachusetts, served as a Seaman Recruit in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 4, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 47. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 35

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Seaman Recruit (SR)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Unit (as recorded)
NMCB 6 3 NC BDE
Born
November 3, 1920
Home of record
Swansea, Massachusetts (Bristol County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 4, 1968
Age
47
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 35

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.