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DONALD LEE RUPE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 21, 1948 – March 8, 1969
Service recordDonald Lee Rupe, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 81
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Linn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 81
- ROGER WAYNE SMELSERPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- CHARLES DAVID SNYDERPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- GLENN ROBERT STAIRPrivate First Class · March 8, 1969
- NYMAN WILLIAM STELTER JRCorporal · March 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ROBERT GREGSONSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 75
- SIXTO R MARTINEZ JRSergeant · Panel 30W, Line 78
- KENNETH EDWARD MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 79
- RALPH DEAN VEALESergeant · Panel 30W, Line 82
From Cedar Rapids
- ROBERT MILVOY HORSKYMajor · December 11, 1965
- DENNIS LEE EILERSCaptain · December 24, 1965
- JAMES PHILLIP SCHIMBERGSpecialist Four · January 9, 1966
- MARK LEO ENGLISHSpecialist Four · December 18, 1966
- JOHN WALTER WALLCorporal · April 21, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD GRADOVILLELance Corporal · June 16, 1967
- WAYNE FRANK WHITEMANLance Corporal · October 22, 1967
- HOWARD EMERSON HANSON JRSpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- CURTIS DEAN SNITKERCorporal · February 1, 1968
- DANIEL JAMES KAPLANLance Corporal · February 7, 1968
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.