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HOWARD LEE JONES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 9, 1945 – November 29, 1966
Service recordHoward Lee Jones, of Tupelo, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 129
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 9, 1945
- Home of record
- Tupelo, Oklahoma (Coal County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 129
- CARROLL JAMES HEBERTPrivate First Class · November 29, 1966
- DAVID CARL LOUTHANLance Corporal · November 29, 1966
- DONALD JOHN MILLERPrivate First Class · November 29, 1966
- TERRY PAUL PIERCEPrivate First Class · November 29, 1966
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.