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KIRBY LYNN HAMBY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 26, 1948 – June 8, 1968
Service recordKirby Lynn Hamby, of Marietta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 3
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Marietta, Georgia (Cobb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 3
- PHILIP GEORGE COLONNASergeant · June 8, 1968
- JIMMY ONEAL CROFTPrivate First Class · June 8, 1968
- THOMAS ALLEN EDMONDSpecialist Four · June 8, 1968
- RONALD EDMOND FORGETSergeant · June 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERIC ARNOLD ANDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 58W, Line 1
- GERALD JAMES FROSTCorporal · Panel 58W, Line 2
- PHILIP GEORGE COLONNASergeant · Panel 58W, Line 3
- THOMAS ALLEN EDMONDSpecialist Four · Panel 58W, Line 3
- CHARLES JONES JRCorporal · Panel 58W, Line 4
- DANIEL LEO STOCKERPrivate First Class · Panel 58W, Line 5
From Marietta
- WILLIAM BAYLES CAWTHORNESecond Lieutenant · June 30, 1964
- ROY LEE CASTLEBERRYPetty Officer Second Class · May 24, 1967
- JOEL CLYDE ROPERPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- JOHNNY JUERGEN JUNKINSCorporal · March 8, 1968
- WILLIE EDWARD GLOVERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- PATRICK HENRY COOK JRSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- RONALD WAYNE HERRENCorporal · May 27, 1968
- EUGENE RICHARDSON IIILance Corporal · June 21, 1968
- MELVIN DARRYL RUMSEYPrivate First Class · November 20, 1968
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.