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WARREN W COBLEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 7, 1938 – July 8, 1966
Service recordWarren W Cobley, of Traverse City, Michigan, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 7, 1938
- Home of record
- Traverse City, Michigan (Grand Traverse County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 9E, Line 4
- MARSHALL BURKE JRSpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- ANTHONY JOHN GUSTINSergeant First Class · July 7, 1966
- A T HOWELLPrivate First Class · July 7, 1966
From Traverse City
- THOMAS NEIL YAGLELance Corporal · April 16, 1966
- RICHARD LEE OTTELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- MELVIN UDELSON WANGESHIKSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- DOUGLAS MEREDITH MCNABBSpecialist Four · February 23, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES HARRINGTONPrivate · June 4, 1968
- JAMES IVAN JAQUISHSpecialist Four · September 25, 1969
- MICHAEL PATRICK MCQUEERSpecialist Four · November 11, 1969
- GERALD DOUGLAS TOMLINSONCorporal · February 4, 1970
- HOFF RALPH HENRY VONDERPrivate First Class · August 28, 1970
- RICHARD HENRY DEFERMajor · October 18, 1971
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.