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JACKIE DWAYNE HAMBY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 10, 1946 – July 28, 1969
Service recordJackie Dwayne Hamby, of Bono, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 28, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 65
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Bono, Arkansas (Craighead County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 28, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date July 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 65
- ROBERT WENDELL FLETCHERPrivate First Class · July 28, 1969
- JOHN ROBERT GAINERCorporal · July 28, 1969
- PETER JAMES GERRYSpecialist Four · July 28, 1969
- ANDREW JOHN KINIRYCorporal · July 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TIMOTHY WAYNE BEVERFORDSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 63
From Bono
- WILLIAM FLOYD DACUSSpecialist Five · April 25, 1970
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.