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MICHAEL BENJAMIN KOPETSKI
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 1, 1949 – June 20, 1968
Service recordMichael Benjamin Kopetski, of Orange Park, Florida, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 7
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
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- March 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Orange Park, Florida (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 7
- LARRY RUSSELL KENNANNCorporal · June 20, 1968
- THOMAS DANIEL LATANOWICHPrivate First Class · June 20, 1968
- LARRY GLEN MASSIESpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
- THOMAS MARTIN WERNERSpecialist Four · June 20, 1968
From Orange Park
- DOUGLAS ALAN LENTZPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- WAYNE CARLTON KURLINPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
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.