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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Jacob Campbell.

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RONALD JACOB CAMPBELL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 30, 1948 – April 25, 1968

Service record

Ronald Jacob Campbell, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52E · Line 3

Position of Panel 52E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cargo Specialist (57H)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
December 30, 1948
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 25, 1968
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Philadelphia

All 622 names from Philadelphia →

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.