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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Earl Franklin Houck JR.

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EARL FRANKLIN HOUCK JR

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

May 25, 1946 – February 16, 1969

Service record

Earl Franklin Houck JR, of Poseyville, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 16, 1969, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 32W · Line 43

Position of Panel 32W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electronics Technician (Submarine) (ET)
Born
May 25, 1946
Home of record
Poseyville, Indiana (Posey County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 16, 1969
Age
22
Province
Chau Doc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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30 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1969; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 32W, Line 43

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.