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HOWARD LEE EARLY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 11, 1932 – February 19, 1969
Service recordHoward Lee Early, of Jonesville, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1969, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 58
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 11, 1932
- Home of record
- Jonesville, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1969
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Vinh Long
- 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 February 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Vinh Long Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 58
- DAN RAE BYHAMPrivate First Class · February 19, 1969
- JAMES WENDALL DALTONCorporal · February 19, 1969
- DANIEL JOHN FOSTERPrivate First Class · February 19, 1969
- GARY ROY GENTHCorporal · February 19, 1969
- JOHN TERRELL WHITSONSergeant · February 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWIN ARTHUR ACKERMAN JRCaptain · Panel 32W, Line 57
- ROBERT G WIMPSergeant First Class · Panel 32W, Line 63
From Jonesville
- DAVE MAYES JRSpecialist Four · November 13, 1965
- HUBERT AARON ERWINPrivate First Class · December 27, 1966
- BUDROW BASS JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- JAMES HARDY WHITESergeant · September 12, 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.