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WILLIAM CARL HOPPER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 24, 1947 – March 7, 1968
Service recordWilliam Carl Hopper, of Maryville, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 45
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
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- October 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Maryville, Tennessee (Blount County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh 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 43E, Line 45
- EDWARD LEE HOOVERPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- BILLY DALE JACKSONPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- LITTLE JAY JACKSONSpecialist Five · March 7, 1968
- STERLING PRICE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
From Maryville
- FRED CALVIN RUSSELLSergeant First Class · February 10, 1967
- WAYNE OLIVER GAYPrivate First Class · March 23, 1967
- OSCAR ROBERT PARROTTLance Corporal · May 4, 1967
- DONALD CLAY COULTERPrivate First Class · August 7, 1967
- ROBERT LEE ROGERSPrivate First Class · January 13, 1968
- WAYNE CHARLES WILLIAMSCorporal · June 26, 1968
- JAMES HOUSTON ROULETTSpecialist Five · June 27, 1968
- GORDON LEE WHEELERStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1969
- THOMAS JACKSON GRINDSTAFFSpecialist Five · March 21, 1969
- JOHNNY LEON BRYANTCaptain · May 22, 1969
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.