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THOMAS RAY COOK JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 14, 1948 – July 26, 1968
Service recordThomas Ray Cook JR, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 26, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 12
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Greencastle, Pennsylvania (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 12
- HILLMAN GLEN CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- ROBERT MORRIS CHILDRESSPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- MERLIN G CORNELIUS JRLance Corporal · July 26, 1968
- PERRY ROCCO CRISEPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEVEN ARTHUR FRINKPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 13
- CHARLES THOMAS MCNUTTPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 15
- WILLIAM JAMES TELLISSergeant First Class · Panel 50W, Line 16
- FERNANDO MARCELO VALDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 16
From Greencastle
- OMAR DAVID WITMER JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
- JOSEPH ROBERT BECK JRSpecialist Five · October 26, 1967
- ROBERT WAYNE BOWMANSpecialist Six · March 15, 1969
- RANDY TRUMAN KENDLEPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.