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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 W Lee.

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HOWARD W LEE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 20, 1945 – February 8, 1968

Service record

Howard W Lee, of Dallas, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38E · Line 32

Position of Panel 38E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mechanical Maintenance Helper (63A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
May 20, 1945
Home of record
Dallas, Texas (Dallas County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 8, 1968
Age
22
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

114 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 38E, Line 32

Same unit, same day

From Dallas

All 261 names from Dallas →

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.