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RAYMOND LEE CORK JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 8, 1946 – December 4, 1967
Service recordRaymond Lee Cork JR, of Racine, Wisconsin, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 4, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 33
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Commissaryman (CS)
- Born
- October 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Racine, Wisconsin (Racine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 33
- ARNOLD COLLINSCorporal · December 4, 1967
- DONALD RICHARD COTECorporal · December 4, 1967
- HAROLD WARREN CUMMINGS JRPrivate First Class · December 4, 1967
- OMER PAUL DICKERSONPrivate First Class · December 4, 1967
From Racine
- GILBERT RONALD NICKERSONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- ROBERT IRA BUSHCaptain · June 9, 1966
- ANTHONY GEORGE CALVERLEYLance Corporal · July 15, 1966
- WILLIAM JAMES ROHANPetty Officer Third Class · September 16, 1966
- JOHN CHARLES MERCIERLance Corporal · December 8, 1966
- LAVOUGHN HERMAN FOLKERSSergeant · February 28, 1967
- LARRY ALLEN WILLIAMSONSpecialist Four · May 21, 1967
- JAMES LEONARD BOEHLERPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- CHARLES ALLEN JOHNSONCorporal · September 11, 1967
- PAUL WINTON WAHLER JRFirst Lieutenant · November 18, 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.