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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harry Paul Gamble.

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HARRY PAUL GAMBLE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

January 22, 1942 – June 7, 1965

Service record

Harry Paul Gamble, of San Francisco, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 1

Position of Panel 2E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Basic Infantryman (0300)
Born
January 22, 1942
Home of record
San Francisco, California (San Francisco County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 7, 1965
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1965; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 1

From San Francisco

All 164 names from San Francisco →

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.