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JEROME DEAN KUPPERSCHMIDT
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 22, 1948 – June 7, 1968
Service recordJerome Dean Kupperschmidt, of Sandwich, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 25
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 1 BN 26 MAR
- Born
- January 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Sandwich, Illinois (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 25
- ROBERT JOHN KUCWAYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
- ROBERT VASO KURILICHMajor · June 7, 1968
- ROBERT MICHAEL LEAHYPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
- RAMON LEYBAPetty Officer Third Class · June 7, 1968
From Sandwich
- ROBERT JUNIOR NEALPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- FRANCIS ALAN ANDERSONSergeant · March 29, 1968
- DONALD J MORRISCaptain · May 20, 1970
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.