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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jackson Elliott Cox.

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JACKSON ELLIOTT COX

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 15, 1941 – March 25, 1967

Service record

Jackson Elliott Cox, of Waynesboro, Georgia, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 41

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
August 15, 1941
Home of record
Waynesboro, Georgia (Burke County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 25, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 41

From Waynesboro

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.