Gary Lynn Campen

Gary Lynn Campen

Company C 1/22 Infantry

KIA February 5, 1968

Date of birth: 18 March 1947
Service: US Army (drafted)
Rank: Private First Class
Marital Status: Single
Date tour began: 22 NOV 1967
Place of death: Kontum, Republic of Vietnam
Type: Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds

Viet War takes life of soldier
The first victim of the Vietnam war from Washougal, Pfc. Gary L. Campen, 20, was killed in action last Monday afternoon, the Army reported Thursday. The soldier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon M. Campen, Rt. 1, Box 452, Washougal, reportedly died of shrapnel wounds received on a combat operation, while engaged in a fire-fight with enemy. He was serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division.. Campen's death brought to 25 the number of members of the armed forces with Clark County ties to die in Vietnam - five more than the 20 killed in the Korean War. A former student at Washougal High School, Campen entered the Army last year and went to Vietnam in late November after training at Ft. Lewis.
(The Columbian, Vancouver WA, 9 Feb 1968)

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