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JACK J COOPERWOOD III
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 16, 1948 – July 12, 1967
Service recordJack J Cooperwood III, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 12, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 12, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1967; six of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 57
- RONALD EDWARD CRAINSpecialist Four · July 12, 1967
- JACK PARIS DOVE SRCaptain · July 12, 1967
- ROBERT EDWIN ECHOLSPrivate First Class · July 12, 1967
- CLAUDE EUGENE ELMORESergeant · July 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES VINCENT AYLORSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 55
- CLAUDE EUGENE ELMORESergeant · Panel 23E, Line 57
- JEROME GEORGE MCGOVERNSergeant · Panel 23E, Line 61
- LAURENCE G SERSHONPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 63
- BERNIE LEE TATESpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 65
- EDDIE EARL WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 66
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 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.