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JAMES HENRY CAMPBELL JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 21, 1945 – March 26, 1968
Service recordJames Henry Campbell JR, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 30
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 21, 1945
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh 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 46E, Line 30
- ROBERT LEE BUTLERPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM CAMPOSSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- BARTON WAINWRIGHT CAREYPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- WILLIAM HAROLD COOKPetty Officer Third Class · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEE BUTLERPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 30
- BARTON WAINWRIGHT CAREYPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 30
- LARRY EUGENE ELMOREPrivate · Panel 46E, Line 31
- ALAN SPENCE KOHNSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 36
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.