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LEROY CHARLES HOWE
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 22, 1948 – May 13, 1967
Service recordLeroy Charles Howe, of Holland Patent, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 13, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 107
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Holland Patent, New York (Oneida County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 107
- LARRY KEITH HEAVNERLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- KENNETH LEWIS HIRST JRLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- FRED LEE HOTTINGERPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
- DENNIS LEROY HUBBARDPrivate First Class · May 13, 1967
From Holland Patent
- ALLEN MORGAN GARRETTPrivate · May 17, 1966
- JERRY DEWAIN EVANSSpecialist Four · February 23, 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.