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JOHN RANDOLPH COOPER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 21, 1943 – June 28, 1968
Service recordJohn Randolph Cooper JR, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 8
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Lawrenceville, Georgia (Gwinnett County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 28, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1968; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 8
- JOHN HOUSTON BAKERCorporal · June 28, 1968
- DAVID RONALD BURKES JRCorporal · June 28, 1968
- JAMES TERRY COGGINSPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- MARK EDWARD VANDERHEIDLance Corporal · June 28, 1968
From Lawrenceville
- FRANCIS MCDOWALL JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 12, 1969
- DONNY JOE BRASWELLCorporal · July 10, 1970
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.