The Wall › Panel 33E › Missouri › Scott Howard Cook
SCOTT HOWARD COOK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 29, 1948 – December 30, 1967
Service recordScott Howard Cook, of Pacific, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 30, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 2
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Pacific, Missouri (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 30, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1967; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 2
- JOSEPH BUSUTTILPrivate First Class · December 30, 1967
- RAY DELGADOCorporal · December 30, 1967
- HENRY LEO GEDDIS JRCorporal · December 30, 1967
- RICHARD GERALD GODBOUTSergeant · December 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD GERALD GODBOUTSergeant · Panel 33E, Line 2
- WILLIAM CARL MARKLE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 33E, Line 3
- WYLIE ORIA PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · Panel 33E, Line 4
- LOUIS SUTERA JRSergeant · Panel 33E, Line 5
- GEORGE JOSEPH WILLIAMSCorporal · Panel 33E, Line 6
From Pacific
- BERTMANN EARL MILLERSpecialist Four · November 1, 1967
- ANTHONY KNOLLPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- KENNETH WILLIAM COWSERTPrivate First Class · March 10, 1970
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.