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JOSEPH ANTHONY COOMES
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 12, 1945 – September 21, 1967
Service recordJoseph Anthony Coomes, of Owensboro, Kentucky, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 21, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 100
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Owensboro, Kentucky (Daviess County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1967; 44 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 100
- TROY WESLEY COKLEYPrivate First Class · September 21, 1967
- JERRY K COVEYSpecialist Four · September 21, 1967
- JIMMY DOUGLAS CURRYCorporal · September 21, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD DENNYPetty Officer Second Class · September 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR DIAZ ESQUEDAPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 26E, Line 101
From Owensboro
- CHARLES ERVIN SHELTONColonel · April 29, 1965
- RANDELL GENE TRAILLance Corporal · October 26, 1965
- RAYMOND LEE FORDWarrant Officer 1 · March 29, 1966
- CHARLES RATES LEWISSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- CHARLES RAYMOND LEONARDSpecialist Four · July 22, 1967
- MANFORD DALVIS STEWARTPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- PAUL LEE PRICECorporal · September 23, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS COONPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- ROBERT WESLEY WATTSWarrant Officer 1 · November 22, 1967
- KENNETH R SHOEMAKER JRFirst Lieutenant · November 30, 1967
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.