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RICHARD WORRELL KAPP JR
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 18, 1944 – March 1, 1968
Service recordRichard Worrell Kapp JR, of Orangeburg, South Carolina, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 1, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 18
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
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
- Born
- March 18, 1944
- Home of record
- Orangeburg, South Carolina (Orangeburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 42E, Line 18
- MICHAEL KENNETH HASTINGSPetty Officer Third Class · March 1, 1968
- WILLIAM RICHARD KLAWITTERLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
- BENNIE KSIAZEKPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- LAWRENCE JON KLAAHSENSpecialist Four · August 1, 1968
From Orangeburg
- ANDERSON HAROLD KEYPrivate First Class · January 13, 1966
- FREDDIE LEE ROBINSONSpecialist Four · May 16, 1967
- JAMES WALTER SANFORDPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- ROBERT PENDARVISSpecialist Four · June 29, 1967
- JOHN WILLIE LUCASSpecialist Four · November 24, 1967
- EDWARD LOUIS WILLIAMSONPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- THOMAS GRANTPlatoon Sergeant · December 8, 1967
- HUGH GREY WILLARDSergeant · December 23, 1967
- DOUGLAS MONROE BACOTCorporal · March 24, 1968
- KENNETH BRUCE JENKINSCaptain · September 6, 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.