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MICHAEL VINCENT KUROPAS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 9, 1948 – April 15, 1970
Service recordMichael Vincent Kuropas, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1970, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1970. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11W, Line 7
- MICHAEL CHARLES GOMESPrivate First Class · April 15, 1970
- MICHAEL WAYNE HAYNESCorporal · April 15, 1970
- JAMES DAVID HOUSLEYSpecialist Four · April 15, 1970
- DENNIS EUGENE JACKOWSKIPrivate First Class · April 15, 1970
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS WADE NEALStaff Sergeant · Panel 11W, Line 9
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.