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JOE PAUL KLIPFEL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 19, 1948 – December 6, 1968
Service recordJoe Paul Klipfel, of Portageville, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 48
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Portageville, Missouri (New Madrid County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- 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 December 6, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 48
- GUENTER ROBERT THONUESSergeant · December 5, 1968
- JOSEPH RAY THORNTONPrivate · December 5, 1968
- DONALD DENNIS WEYKERSpecialist Four · December 5, 1968
- GARY RICHARD BERGPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
From Portageville
- LARRY GENE BARHAMPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- RONALD DOUGLAS RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- LESTER RILEY JRPetty Officer Second Class · March 10, 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.