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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Willis Campbell JR.

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FRANK WILLIS CAMPBELL JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 18, 1943 – June 1, 1968

Service record

Frank Willis Campbell JR, of Chilhowie, Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 1, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 62W · Line 21

Position of Panel 62W 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 18, 1943
Home of record
Chilhowie, Virginia (Smyth County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 1, 1968
Age
24
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 62W, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Chilhowie

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.