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JAMES WILLIAM COOPER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 21, 1944 – April 9, 1968
Service recordJames William Cooper, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 21, 1944
- Home of record
- Houston, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 57
- JAMES RUSSELL CHINNSpecialist Five · April 9, 1968
- PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLINPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JRSpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
- JAMES DALE DILLONStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EMERY NORMAN POITROWStaff Sergeant · Panel 49E, Line 5
- ROBERT LYNN VANDERMUELENCorporal · Panel 49E, Line 6
From Houston
- JOSEPH MICHAEL FAHEY JRCaptain · February 11, 1962
- JOHN F SHAUGHNESSY JRCaptain · February 3, 1963
- RICHARD DALE HILLAirman Second Class · December 6, 1963
- HUGHIE DARELL ADAMSMajor · January 7, 1964
- ALBERT LAWRENCE SHIMEKPrivate First Class · April 10, 1964
- BYRON CLARK STONECaptain · August 20, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HAVEMANNWarrant Officer 1 · October 7, 1964
- ROBERT GRAHAM BELLMajor · May 16, 1965
- LEROY ANTHONY BOURGEOISPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- ROBERT FILMORE BATSONSergeant · August 18, 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.