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JOSEPH HENRY BYRNE
Major · U.S. Air Force
January 28, 1925 – March 13, 1968
Service recordJoseph Henry Byrne, of Evanston, Illinois, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 13, 1968, in Laos, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 33
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 56 AIR CBT WG
- Born
- January 28, 1925
- Home of record
- Evanston, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 43
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “56 AIR CBT WG”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 33
- LEON JOSEPH ATTERIDGE JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- GEORGE MANUAL CHACALOSPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- GUY FLETCHER COLLINSLieutenant Colonel · March 13, 1968
- WILLIAM DON CRAWFORDSergeant First Class · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GUY FLETCHER COLLINSLieutenant Colonel · Panel 44E, Line 33
From Evanston
- RICHARD FRANK WALLACECaptain · August 24, 1965
- JAMES E FULLERPrivate · June 22, 1966
- STEPHEN ARTHUR ANDERSONLance Corporal · September 25, 1966
- MICHAEL CHARLES DOYLEFirst Lieutenant · November 7, 1966
- LEE OWENS WHITE JRSpecialist Four · November 21, 1966
- NELSON SAYLER LEHMAN JRCaptain · March 7, 1967
- CLAYTON WINSLOW JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 1967
- ALLAN JOSEPH HERMANSecond Lieutenant · September 10, 1967
- ROBERT GEORGE KEATSCaptain · February 2, 1968
- ALBERT JEAN MITCHELLPrivate First Class · March 6, 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.