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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harold Bruce Kimbrough.

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HAROLD BRUCE KIMBROUGH

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 12, 1946 – September 22, 1970

Service record

Harold Bruce Kimbrough, of Batesville, Arkansas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 22, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 84

Position of Panel 7W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
Born
April 12, 1946
Home of record
Batesville, Arkansas (Independence County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 22, 1970
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date September 22, 1970; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 84

From Batesville

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.