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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Charles Cupp.

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JOHN CHARLES CUPP

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 28, 1942 – June 13, 1968

Service record

John Charles Cupp, of Noblesville, Indiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 57W · Line 8

Position of Panel 57W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
March 28, 1942
Home of record
Noblesville, Indiana (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 13, 1968
Age
26
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; eight of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 57W, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Noblesville

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.