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SHELBY EMERSON COOLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 14, 1945 – May 10, 1968
Service recordShelby Emerson Cooley, of Mineral City, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 14, 1945
- Home of record
- Mineral City, Ohio (Tuscarawas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 6
- PAUL STEVEN CZERWONKAPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- LELAND PATRICK FINLEYSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- HORACE HIGLEY FLEMING IIIMajor · May 10, 1968
- THOMAS CLYDE SCHRIVERStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN MARSHALL CALLAHAM JRCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 5
- LARRY GENE PATTERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 58E, Line 13
From Mineral City
- RONALD LEE WIGFIELDPrivate First Class · May 15, 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.