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HOWARD RAY SPITZER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 15, 1948 – May 18, 1968
Service recordHoward Ray Spitzer, of Paris, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 63E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 63E · Line 1
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Paris, Michigan (Mecosta County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 63E, Line 1
- CHARLES EDWARD SCATES JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- CARL FREDRICK SCHMALZ JRSergeant · May 18, 1968
- THOMAS EDWARD SHARPEPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- CARL EUGENE SHIRLEYSergeant · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY GENE CALHOUNSpecialist Four · Panel 62E, Line 14
- DAVID GIBSONSpecialist Four · Panel 62E, Line 18
- ROBERT WAYNE HAMMERSpecialist Four · Panel 62E, Line 18
- BRUCE LEVYPrivate First Class · Panel 62E, Line 19
From Paris
- EDWARD ELLIOTT GRABOSKEYPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
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.