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HUBERT CLARENCE VANPOLL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 2, 1936 – June 15, 1967
Service recordHubert Clarence Vanpoll, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 110
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 2, 1936
- Home of record
- Cottage Grove, Oregon (Lane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1967
- Age
- 30
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 110
- BRUCE TOWNSENDSergeant · June 15, 1967
- HERBERT WIGFALL JRPrivate First Class · June 15, 1967
- FREDERICK JOSEPH WILLIAMSSergeant · June 15, 1967
- WILLIAM WINIFRED YOUNG JRPrivate First Class · June 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES CHARLES FEKETESergeant First Class · Panel 21E, Line 104
- BEN DAVID SNOWDENMaster Sergeant · Panel 21E, Line 108
From Cottage Grove
- GARY MELVIN LADDPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- BILLIE E SANDEFURFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1967
- LAWRENCE EUGENE HECKMANCorporal · February 1, 1968
- LEVI LESTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · August 10, 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.