James Claire Kopseng

Staff Sergeant
D CO, 1ST BN, 35TH INFANTRY, 4 INF DIV
Army of the United States
06 October 1947 - 14 May 1969
Harvey, North Dakota
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4 INF DIV 35TH INF RGT
Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for James Claire Kopseng

23 Dec 2001

"To live in the hearts we leave behind,
is never to have died."
(Thomas Campbell, circa 1888)

Rodger Leffler
Delta 1/35 Inf 1968
leffler.rodger.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 14 May 1969 a booby-trapped Claymore mine killed two men about 10 kilometers west-southwest of the Oasis Airfield in Pleiku Province: SSG James C. Kopseng and SP4 David B. Schachner, 40th Scout Dog Platoon, from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Remembered by their fellow soldiers of the

35TH INF RGT
35th Infantry - the Cacti Regiment

Photo courtesy of the 35th Infantry Assn



The point-of-contact for this memorial is
a comrade-in-arms,
Rodger Leffler
leffler.rodger.a@edumail.vic.gov.au


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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Memorial first published on 23 Dec 2001
Last updated 01/18/2008