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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Howard William Bannister.

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HOWARD WILLIAM BANNISTER

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

July 6, 1929 – July 11, 1967

Service record

Howard William Bannister, of Delbarton, West Virginia, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 11, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23E · Line 48

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Boatswain's Mate (BM)
Unit (as recorded)
MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
Born
July 6, 1929
Home of record
Delbarton, West Virginia (Mingo County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1967
Age
38
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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36 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1967; eight of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 23E, Line 48

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.