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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Cecil Leroy Chapman.

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CECIL LEROY CHAPMAN

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

July 31, 1941 – March 10, 1967

Service record

Cecil Leroy Chapman, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1967, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 51

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
Born
July 31, 1941
Home of record
Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1967
Age
25
Province
Ninh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967; eight of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 51

From Fayetteville

All 84 names from Fayetteville →

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.