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HOWELL WAYNE BURNS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 14, 1951 – December 12, 1971
Service recordHowell Wayne Burns, of Hartsville, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 86
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
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 14, 1951
- Home of record
- Hartsville, Tennessee (Trousdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1971. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 86
- PHILIP S GALLAGHER IIIFirst Lieutenant · December 11, 1971
- ISADORE JENKINSSpecialist Four · December 11, 1971
- RONALD ANTHONY SPUDISSpecialist Four · December 11, 1971
- JERRY NORMAN DUFFEYSergeant · December 12, 1971
Same unit, same day
- LLOYD STEVEN RAINEYChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 2W, Line 87
From Hartsville
- JAMES RONALD WORLEYSergeant · April 30, 1968
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.