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MORRISON AUTHER COTNER
Major · U.S. Air Force
May 30, 1925 – April 28, 1967
Service recordMorrison Auther Cotner, of Booneville, Arkansas, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He died on April 28, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 106
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- May 30, 1925
- Home of record
- Booneville, Arkansas (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1967
- Age
- 41
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 106
- DOMINIC JOSEPH CIFELLIPrivate First Class · April 28, 1967
- JAMES DAVID CIRUTIPrivate First Class · April 28, 1967
- RITSON LEWIS Y CLARKECorporal · April 28, 1967
- KENNETH BRYAN MORRISSergeant · April 28, 1967
From Booneville
- JOHN LLOYD VORIESSpecialist Five · May 5, 1968
- JAMES ALLEN FROSTSpecialist Four · November 6, 1968
- CLYDE LEROY DICKASONSpecialist Four · January 11, 1969
- JOHN STEPHEN SATTERFIELDSpecialist Four · December 28, 1972
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.