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JAMES DOUGLAS CHAMBERS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 20, 1948 – February 28, 1968
Service recordJames Douglas Chambers, of Markham, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 60
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- February 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Markham, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 60
- ROBERT EDWARD CALDWELLCorporal · February 28, 1968
- MELVIN EUGENE CHLOUPEKPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- RONALD S H CHRISTMANLance Corporal · February 28, 1968
- KLAUS DIETER EGOLFSergeant · February 28, 1968
From Markham
- WILLIAM JOSEPH VANGORDERSergeant · June 21, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN PAHR JRSergeant · December 19, 1968
- JERRY CHARLES BOCKPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- ODELL EASLEYPrivate First Class · August 19, 1969
- WYMAN TRUVOY JOHNSONSpecialist Four · April 22, 1970
- NAPOLEON JOHNSONSergeant · July 5, 1971
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.