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HENRY HWEY GAMBLE
Corporal · U.S. Army
January 18, 1945 – April 7, 1967
Service recordHenry Hwey Gamble, of West Palm Beach, Florida, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 18, 1945
- Home of record
- West Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 114
- GEORGE M HARRINGTONSpecialist Five · April 6, 1967
- CONRAD EARL POOLESpecialist Five · April 6, 1967
- ABELARDO ARAUJOPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- DONALD EARL BOSTONPetty Officer Third Class · April 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROSS ALLEN GASTONPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 116
- JERRY ROBERT MILLERCorporal · Panel 17E, Line 117
- THOMAS PATTERSONSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 119
From West Palm Beach
- ELMER L JUCKETT IIIPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- IVY THOMAS ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · March 26, 1967
- HAROLD CLARENCE COOKMaster Sergeant · September 4, 1967
- PAUL HAROLD CLINESergeant · February 6, 1968
- JOHN DEAN HALLCorporal · February 28, 1968
- DAVID LEE WILKERSONSpecialist Four · March 24, 1968
- GARY LEONARD DANIELSPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- RICHARD CURTIS JACKSONSergeant · May 11, 1968
- ROBERT RAY DUNCANLieutenant · August 29, 1968
- MAGNUS CARL NIELSENPrivate First Class · August 31, 1968
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.