Jack Joseph Kupferer

Private First Class
B CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INF RGT, 25 INF DIV
Army of the United States
12 July 1947 - 19 January 1968
Terre Haute, Indiana
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25 INF DIV 5TH INF RGT
Silver Star

Combat Infantry

Bronze Star, Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign
Jack Kupferer

The database page for Jack Joseph Kupferer

12 Jun 2004

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,
Lisa Kupferer
ljkupferer@yahoo.com

Jack and Lisa Kupferer

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 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

REMEMBERED

by their comrades in the
5th Inf Rgt

5th Infantry - the Bobcats


The point-of-contact for this memorial is
his wife,
Lisa Kupferer
ljkupferer@yahoo.com 
13 Jun 2004



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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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