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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Howard Lee Webb.

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HOWARD LEE WEBB

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 21, 1942 – June 8, 1967

Service record

Howard Lee Webb, of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 77

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
July 21, 1942
Home of record
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (Sussex County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 8, 1967
Age
24
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 77

Same unit, same day

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.