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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Cobb.

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RAYMOND COBB

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 2, 1947 – September 13, 1968

Service record

Raymond Cobb, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 13, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44W · Line 48

Position of Panel 44W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 2, 1947
Home of record
New Orleans, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
September 13, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 44W, Line 48

Same unit, same day

From New Orleans

All 164 names from New Orleans →

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.