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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 Harry B Hambleton III.

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HARRY B HAMBLETON III

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

June 2, 1944 – September 15, 1968

Service record

Harry B Hambleton III, of Elm Grove, Wisconsin, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44W · Line 64

Position of Panel 44W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Parachutist, Combat Engineer Unit Commander (71331)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 2, 1944
Home of record
Elm Grove, Wisconsin (Waukesha County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1968
Age
24
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 44W, Line 64

Same unit, same day

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.