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DAVID LAVERN CAMPBELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 15, 1949 – May 15, 1968
Service recordDavid Lavern Campbell, of Clarinda, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 20
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Clarinda, Iowa (Page County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 20
- ROBERT HOWARD BYRNESCorporal · May 15, 1968
- WILLIAM CHAPMAN JRLance Corporal · May 15, 1968
- DORIS WAYNE CLARKSpecialist Five · May 15, 1968
- CHARLES ALFRED COPEPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
From Clarinda
- BERNARD W DICKERSON JRCorporal · June 11, 1968
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.