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Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970.
Bomb craters along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, August 1970. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dwight Stanley Campbell.

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DWIGHT STANLEY CAMPBELL

Captain · U.S. Air Force

January 25, 1939 – February 22, 1967

Service record

Dwight Stanley Campbell, of Fairland, Oklahoma, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on February 22, 1967, in Laos, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 73

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Born
January 25, 1939
Home of record
Fairland, Oklahoma (Ottawa County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1967
Age
28
Country
Laos
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 73

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.