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TERRY LEE COOPER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 14, 1944 – December 22, 1968
Service recordTerry Lee Cooper, of Thornville, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 22, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 14, 1944
- Home of record
- Thornville, Ohio (Perry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 22, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 61
- RICHARD GEORGE BARNARDSergeant First Class · December 22, 1968
- RICHARD THOMAS CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · December 22, 1968
- EDWIN HUGH CORWINGunnery Sergeant · December 22, 1968
- DON HINSONPrivate First Class · December 22, 1968
From Thornville
- ROBERT JOSEPH QUINNSergeant · September 24, 1969
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.