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TERRY LEE COGGINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 14, 1949 – July 1, 1968
Service recordTerry Lee Coggins, of Wilmer, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 1, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 27
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Wilmer, Texas (Dallas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 1, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date July 1, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 27
- RICHARD FLOYD BURNHAM JRSpecialist Four · July 1, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL BUTTSPrivate First Class · July 1, 1968
- LESLIE LOUIS CARTERPetty Officer First Class · July 1, 1968
- JAMES LARRY CROCKETTStaff Sergeant · July 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT FRANCIS LUPOLI JRSergeant · Panel 54W, Line 31
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.