Gregory the son of Henry Jr. and Marilyn G. Coin of Detroit MI enlisted in the US Marine Corps on June 24, 1965. He was assigned to Company L, BLT 3/5, 9th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF and wounded at Cam Lo in Quang Tri Province on July 22, 1966. After recovery at the US Army Hospital in Camp Kue, Okinawa he was reassigned to HQ Company, 7th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF.
At the Regimental CP on Hill 55 a working party was improving the defensive wire facing the hamlet of Xuan Diem in Dien Ban District when a anti personnel mine was tripped and detonated causing the death of LCpl Coin and Cpl Thompson as a result of multiple fragmentation wounds.
At the Regimental CP on Hill 55 a working party was improving the defensive wire facing the hamlet of Xuan Diem in Dien Ban District when a anti personnel mine was tripped and detonated causing the death of LCpl Coin and Cpl Thompson as a result of multiple fragmentation wounds.
Gregory the son of Henry Jr. and Marilyn G. Coin of Detroit MI enlisted in the US Marine Corps on June 24, 1965. He was assigned to Company L, BLT 3/5, 9th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF and wounded at Cam Lo in Quang Tri Province on July 22, 1966. After recovery at the US Army Hospital in Camp Kue, Okinawa he was reassigned to HQ Company, 7th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF.
At the Regimental CP on Hill 55 a working party was improving the defensive wire facing the hamlet of Xuan Diem in Dien Ban District when a anti personnel mine was tripped and detonated causing the death of LCpl Coin and Cpl Thompson as a result of multiple fragmentation wounds.
At the Regimental CP on Hill 55 a working party was improving the defensive wire facing the hamlet of Xuan Diem in Dien Ban District when a anti personnel mine was tripped and detonated causing the death of LCpl Coin and Cpl Thompson as a result of multiple fragmentation wounds.
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