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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 William Arthur Campbell.

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WILLIAM ARTHUR CAMPBELL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 26, 1948 – September 25, 1968

Service record

William Arthur Campbell, of Greenacres City, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 25, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 9

Position of Panel 42W 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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
January 26, 1948
Home of record
Greenacres City, Florida (Palm Beach County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 25, 1968
Age
20
Province
Darlac
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date September 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 9

Same unit, same day

From Greenacres City

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.