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LEWIS COLLIN COOK
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 15, 1944 – May 18, 1967
Service recordLewis Collin Cook, of Portland, Oregon, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 23
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 15, 1944
- Home of record
- Portland, Oregon (Multnomah County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 23
- EDWARD JOHN CHRISTENSENPrivate · May 18, 1967
- LOUIS WILSON COLEMAN JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- ESTEBAN COLON-MOTASStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1967
- PATRICK JAMES FLAVINPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
From Portland
- RICHARD DALE BENZELSergeant First Class · December 6, 1962
- GEORGE WILLIAM WATSONSpecialist Five · December 18, 1963
- HAROLD JAMES ROBERTS JRMaster Sergeant · June 18, 1965
- TYRRELL GORDON LOWRYCaptain · June 18, 1965
- WILLIAM JOHN LAGRANDChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 5, 1965
- LARRY ALAN LINDSEYPrivate First Class · September 6, 1965
- DONALD WALTER LOVETTSpecialist Four · December 8, 1965
- DAVID JOHN BYSTEDTLance Corporal · January 11, 1966
- RAYMOND EARL BROWNLance Corporal · January 12, 1966
- JAMES LEE GARDNERCorporal · February 2, 1966
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.