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RANDALL EARL COLE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 23, 1948 – March 23, 1968
Service recordRandall Earl Cole, of Springfield, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 62
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Patient Administration Specialist (71G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Springfield, Virginia (Fairfax County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 62
- RONNIE CHARLES CURETONLance Corporal · March 23, 1968
- THOMAS EDWARD DONOVANPrivate First Class · March 23, 1968
- VERNON LEROY DOWNS JRCorporal · March 23, 1968
- JAMES EUGENE LAIRDSecond Lieutenant · March 23, 1968
From Springfield
- CHARLES EDWARD BROWN JRFirst Lieutenant · November 2, 1966
- GERALD LEWIS CATONWarrant Officer 1 · August 17, 1969
- HIRAM MICHAEL WOLFE IVCaptain · December 4, 1969
- SCOTT KENTON PARDEEWarrant Officer 1 · March 23, 1970
- DONALD ROBERT SIMONSergeant · July 25, 1970
- THOMAS HUBERT MESSERStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1970
- JERRY WAINE STEWARDPrivate First Class · October 1, 1970
- THOMAS GEORGE BLAIR JRCaptain · May 29, 1971
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.