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WILLIAM LOUIS COFFEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 29, 1943 – March 6, 1971
Service recordWilliam Louis Coffey, of Oneida, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 29
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- August 29, 1943
- Home of record
- Oneida, Tennessee (Scott County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1971
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1971; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 29
- TERRY LEE MCCLANAHANSpecialist Five · March 6, 1971
- WILLIAM PATRICK MILLINERChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 6, 1971
- MORRIS WOODWARD PIERCE JRSpecialist Five · March 6, 1971
- THOMAS AMBROSE TOLEDOSpecialist Four · March 6, 1971
From Oneida
- DOYLE FOSTERSergeant First Class · March 25, 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.