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JOHNNY RAY COBB
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 6, 1938 – July 10, 1970
Service recordJohnny Ray Cobb, of Madison, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 6
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Self-Propelled Field Artillery Repairer (63D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 6, 1938
- Home of record
- Madison, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 10, 1970
- Age
- 31
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1970. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 6
- PATRICK JOHN BOHANPrivate First Class · July 10, 1970
- THOMAS ALLEN CAMPBELLSergeant First Class · July 10, 1970
- ROBERT JAMES CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · July 10, 1970
- ROBERT LEE OLDHAMSergeant · July 10, 1970
From Madison
- GARY DORVIN WOODSPrivate · June 19, 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.