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GENE JAY HOWARD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 23, 1943 – April 2, 1968
Service recordGene Jay Howard, of Neenah, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 39
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 23, 1943
- Home of record
- Neenah, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968; two 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 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 39
- DAVID THOMAS CONNORSSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
- WILLIAM EDGAR EDWARDSSergeant First Class · April 2, 1968
- DOUGLAS LEE HARRISONCorporal · April 2, 1968
- ARCHIE ANDREW HAYMANCaptain · April 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARCHIE ANDREW HAYMANCaptain · Panel 47E, Line 39
From Neenah
- JOHN PAUL PAULSON JRSpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JRSpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
- ANDREW L HEIDERPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- ROBERT GERDES BLANKPrivate First Class · December 21, 1968
- KENNETH GEORGE LIEBHABERPrivate First Class · February 17, 1969
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.