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MERIL OLEN MCCOY JR
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
February 14, 1942 – December 15, 1970
Service recordMeril Olen McCoy JR, of North Sacramento, California, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 15, 1970, in North Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 123
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- FLTACSUPPRON 50
- Born
- February 14, 1942
- Home of record
- North Sacramento, California (Sacramento County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1970
- Age
- 28
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1970. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “FLTACSUPPRON 50”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 6W, Line 123
- HERMAN FRED IVEYCorporal · December 15, 1970
- CLYDE CHILTON OWENPetty Officer Third Class · December 15, 1970
- ANTHONY J PIERSANTI JRLieutenant (junior grade) · December 15, 1970
- WILLIAM STEVEN STEWARTPetty Officer Second Class · December 15, 1970
Same unit, same day
- CLYDE CHILTON OWENPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 6W, Line 123
- ANTHONY J PIERSANTI JRLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 6W, Line 123
From North Sacramento
- CHEVO GARCIA LARASpecialist Four · August 10, 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.