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JAMES HOWARD LEE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 25, 1950 – July 15, 1969
Service recordJames Howard Lee, of Lockport, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · 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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 25, 1950
- Home of record
- Lockport, New York (Niagara County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 15, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 1
- RICHARD HAROLD MCGUIREPrivate First Class · July 15, 1969
- KENNETH JOHN MEULEBROECKCorporal · July 15, 1969
- TEDDY EUGENE MIDDLETONCorporal · July 15, 1969
- DENNIS EARL NEWMANFirst Lieutenant · July 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARNIM N BRAITHWAITECorporal · Panel 21W, Line 123
- WILLIAM F ERICSON IIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 21W, Line 124
- HENRY R REYESSergeant · Panel 20W, Line 2
From Lockport
- GARY RAMOND LAMBERTPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- ROBERT EUGENE FOSTERStaff Sergeant · March 9, 1966
- OLIN RICHARD THRUSHCorporal · September 23, 1966
- WILLIAM JAMES SIPPELPetty Officer Third Class · June 19, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MCGINNISMajor · February 20, 1968
- TIMOTHY CHARLES HANNIGANSergeant · August 7, 1968
- FRANK EDWARD TIMIANSpecialist Four · April 12, 1969
- PAUL JAMES KNEELANDSergeant · September 18, 1969
- PHILIP JON STEMPERSpecialist Four · April 1, 1970
- GERALD PAUL WICKCaptain · February 15, 1971
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.