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JEFF HAROLD UPP
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 12, 1948 – June 14, 1969
Service recordJeff Harold Upp, of Bryant, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 51
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
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Bryant, Indiana (Jay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 51
- REX DEWEY MORELOCK JRPrivate First Class · June 14, 1969
- DONALD LAVOYCE BRIGHTMANSpecialist Five · June 15, 1969
- VALERIANO DAVID CONTRERASSergeant · June 15, 1969
- EDWARD CHARLES FANNINGPrivate First Class · June 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HARVEY NEWTON SLAUGHTERSergeant First Class · Panel 22W, Line 49
From Bryant
- LARRY LEE BOICELance Corporal · December 10, 1967
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.