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JOSEPH LEE HOPKINS JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 28, 1945 – October 2, 1968
Service recordJoseph Lee Hopkins JR, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 2, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 62
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Watercraft Operator (61B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- June 28, 1945
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 42W, Line 62
- LARRY EUGENE KINGLance Corporal · October 2, 1968
- LARRY DON KITTRELLPrivate First Class · October 2, 1968
- ARTHUR GLENN MARTINLance Corporal · October 2, 1968
- CURTIS ONEIL MILLERPrivate First Class · October 2, 1968
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 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.