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HAL KENT HOWELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 30, 1949 – September 29, 1968
Service recordHal Kent Howell, of Van, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 29, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 41
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 30, 1949
- Home of record
- Van, West Virginia (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 41
- LEE MICHAEL HALSTEADFirst Lieutenant · September 29, 1968
- JERRY LEE HARRISWarrant Officer 1 · September 29, 1968
- RONALD JAMES HUELSKAMPPrivate First Class · September 29, 1968
- DAVID LESLIE MACEPrivate First Class · September 29, 1968
From Van
- TERRY ROGER WHITESergeant · March 24, 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.