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JAMES LEONARD LOPP
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 5, 1947 – February 8, 1968
Service recordJames Leonard Lopp, of Scales Mound, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 32
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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
- July 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Scales Mound, Illinois (Jo Daviess County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 8, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
114 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in South Vietnam while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 32
- WILLIAM FREDERICK HARRINGTONSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- ROBERT GRANTHAN LAPHAMMajor · February 8, 1968
- HOWARD W LEEPrivate First Class · February 8, 1968
- THOMAS CHARLES LEWERCorporal · February 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- AMOS HAYES BOUTWELLPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 21
- ALBERTO CARRASQUILLO-DENTONSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 22
- FRANKLIN CLOVISPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 23
- RALPH ALBERT DAHMSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 24
- LANNY EARL HALESpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 29
- JOHN IRVINE HASELBAUERPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 29
- DAVID LEE MCKINNEYSergeant · Panel 38E, Line 35
- JAMES EARL PARKERSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 36
- JOHN RICHARD POSOPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 38E, Line 37
- WALTER RAYMOND PRATTPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 37
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.