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DANNY RAY HOWELL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 3, 1943 – February 11, 1968
Service recordDanny Ray Howell, of Leewood, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- January 3, 1943
- Home of record
- Leewood, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 77
- DONALD ARTHUR HAUSRATH JRSecond Lieutenant · February 11, 1968
- PETER ALAN HILLPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- GEORGE JONATHAN HOUSEPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- GERALD ALBERT HUCZEKCorporal · February 11, 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.