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PHILLIP BERNARD COONEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 2, 1948 – September 28, 1969
Service recordPhillip Bernard Cooney, of Berwyn, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 20
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- October 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Berwyn, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 20
- JOHN MOSES ANANIANPrivate First Class · September 30, 1969
- TIMOTHY ALLEN DAHLSpecialist Four · September 30, 1969
- LOUIS THOMAS ORTIZPrivate First Class · September 30, 1969
- PHILIP HENRY REITHER JRSpecialist Four · September 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FRANK FRANCIS AUGUSTINESergeant · Panel 17W, Line 14
- JOHNNY WILLIAM GLISSONSpecialist Four · Panel 17W, Line 16
From Berwyn
- CHARLES ALBERT SLAGERCorporal · October 18, 1966
- GEORGE THOMAS SUBERTPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- ROBERT RONALD SWANPrivate · September 1, 1967
- LEE BRIAN JARVISSergeant · September 7, 1967
- JOHN PETER JOHNSONSpecialist Four · January 5, 1968
- WILLIAM RASSANOSpecialist Four · March 2, 1968
- GARY EDWARD BECKERSpecialist Four · May 26, 1968
- MICHAEL JOHN DONOVANSergeant · June 7, 1968
- PETER STEVEN TYRKAPrivate First Class · September 10, 1968
- NORMAN WILLIAM BARTELSCorporal · October 25, 1968
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.