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Jack Joseph Kupferer
Private First Class
B CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INFANTRY, 25TH INF DIV, USARV Army of the United States Terre Haute, Indiana July 12, 1947 to January 19, 1968 JACK J KUPFERER is on the Wall at Panel 34E, Line 78 |
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Jack was killed in action in an ambush near Tay Ninh. He was hit while saving another man. He received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and a Gallantry Cross with Palm and RVN National Order medals from South Vietnam. The photo below was taken at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where Jack did his basic training, about 6 months before he was killed.
From his wife,
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A Note from The Virtual WallOn 19 Jan 1968 elements of B Company, 1/5th Infantry, were escorting a convoy through the Ben Cui Rubber Plantation when an APC was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Two men died in the explosion; the third was shot to death while trying to pull the wounded driver from the APC. The three men killed in the incident were
REMEMBEREDby their comrades in the 5th Infantry - the Bobcats |
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