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KOSMAS PETER KAPETANOPOULOS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
October 8, 1946 – March 13, 1968
Service recordKosmas Peter Kapetanopoulos, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 37
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 70 ENG CO
- Born
- October 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Marlborough, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “70 ENG CO”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 37
- LEWIS MORRISON HAYWARDPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES HONDELSecond Lieutenant · March 13, 1968
- RUSSELL EDWARD HUPEPrivate · March 13, 1968
- GLEN HERBERT MOSLEY JRSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RUSSELL EDWARD HUPEPrivate · Panel 44E, Line 37
From Marlborough
- ROBERT JAMES MCDONOUGHPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- WILLIAM LEONARDCorporal · January 14, 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.