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LEON GAYE HOWARD
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
July 30, 1945 – February 23, 1967
Service recordLeon Gaye Howard, of Lytten, Kentucky, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 23, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 79
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- July 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Lytten, Kentucky (Elliott County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 79
- HOWARD DEXTER GERSHENPrivate First Class · February 23, 1967
- DELACY GRAYPrivate First Class · February 23, 1967
- ROY COLYN GREENPrivate First Class · February 23, 1967
- JAMES ARTHUR MASTENSergeant · February 23, 1967
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.