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JAMES HENRY GAMBLE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 27, 1948 – December 26, 1967
Service recordJames Henry Gamble, of Bessemer, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 26, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 63
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Bessemer, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 26, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 63
- ALLEN D FORDStaff Sergeant · December 26, 1967
- DARRELL DEAN GEHRKESpecialist Five · December 26, 1967
- DAVID RAYMOND HAEFNERSpecialist Four · December 26, 1967
- TIMOTHY JOEL KENNEDYSpecialist Four · December 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MATTHEW PAUL MALCZYNSKISpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 64
- ROBERT ARCHIBALD SIKONPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 66
From Bessemer
- ROY MARVIN HITT JRSergeant · November 4, 1965
- CORDELL SPENCERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- MACK ARTHUR WAREPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY LAGRANDStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OAKESPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ELIJAH DANIEL JRStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1966
- MATTHEW WAREStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1966
- THOMAS C EVANSStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1967
- WILLIAM HORACE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1967
- LOUIS COLSTON JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
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.