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OLAN DAN COLEMAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 23, 1936 – February 11, 1971
Service recordOlan Dan Coleman, of Buffalo, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1971, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 95
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 23, 1936
- Home of record
- Buffalo, South Carolina (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1971
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1971; two of them were lost in Chau Doc Province. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 95
- JAMES FRANCIS CONNOR JRSpecialist Four · February 11, 1971
- CHARLES MILTON DEASFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1971
- DONALD LOUIS DUNNMaster Sergeant · February 11, 1971
- ROBERT ARTHUR EISENBEISZFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1971
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE ONEAL PATTERSONSergeant First Class · Panel 5W, Line 97
From Buffalo
- TONEY ANTHONY BARNETTPetty Officer First Class · July 29, 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.