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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Wayne Campbell.

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JERRY WAYNE CAMPBELL

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 1, 1947 – July 25, 1967

Service record

Jerry Wayne Campbell, of Statesville, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 25, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 118

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 1, 1947
Home of record
Statesville, North Carolina (Iredell County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 25, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 39 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 118

Same unit, same day

From Statesville

All 18 names from Statesville →

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.