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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Earnest Eugene Campbell.

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EARNEST EUGENE CAMPBELL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 5, 1947 – June 3, 1968

Service record

Earnest Eugene Campbell, of Continental, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 61W · Line 21

Position of Panel 61W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 5, 1947
Home of record
Continental, Ohio (Putnam County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 3, 1968
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

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What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 61W, Line 21

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.