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JAY ALAN COOK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 29, 1943 – May 6, 1968
Service recordJay Alan Cook, of High Ridge, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 3
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 29, 1943
- Home of record
- High Ridge, Missouri (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; eight of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 3
- JAMES LEE CLARKSergeant · May 6, 1968
- JOSEPH ALLAN CLINGERMANPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
- EDWARD W COLLINS IIISecond Lieutenant · May 6, 1968
- DENNIS LYNN COOKPrivate First Class · May 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS HAROLD BAILEYPrivate First Class · Panel 55E, Line 38
- DENNIS PREMOCKSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 14
- MILTON EARL SPEARSPrivate First Class · Panel 56E, Line 16
- WILBUR EUGENE SMITH JRSergeant · Panel 56E, Line 17
From High Ridge
- JOHN DAVID PONDERLance Corporal · May 16, 1968
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.