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RICHARD LEWIS HUPP JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 23, 1947 – July 18, 1969
Service recordRichard Lewis Hupp JR, of Pagedale, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 14
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Pagedale, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 14
- LAWRENCE ALAN ESTERLYLance Corporal · July 18, 1969
- RODNEY JOHN EVANSSergeant · July 18, 1969
- ROGER EARL FOREMANSergeant · July 18, 1969
- DAVID LYNN HASTINGSSergeant · July 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HERBERT FRANKLIN AMRHEINSergeant · Panel 20W, Line 13
- ROGER EARL FOREMANSergeant · Panel 20W, Line 14
- THOMAS LEO WISNIOWICZPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 17
From Pagedale
- ROBERT JAMES BOWDERN JRSpecialist Four · April 27, 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.