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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Eaird Coffey.

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JERRY EAIRD COFFEY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 31, 1944 – September 14, 1966

Service record

Jerry Eaird Coffey, of Palmyra, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10E · Line 94

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 31, 1944
Home of record
Palmyra, Illinois (Macoupin County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 14, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 51 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 10E, Line 94

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.