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Navy A-4E Skyhawks from USS Oriskany attack a bridge in North Vietnam, September 1967.
Navy A-4E Skyhawks from USS Oriskany attack a bridge in North Vietnam, September 1967. Photo: LCdr. Jerry Breast, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lloyd George Howie.

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LLOYD GEORGE HOWIE

Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy

November 30, 1943 – May 15, 1970

Service record

Lloyd George Howie, of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 15, 1970, in North Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 45

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Url Pilot (1315)
Unit (as recorded)
7 FLT
Born
November 30, 1943
Home of record
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin (Waukesha County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1970
Age
26
Country
North Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 45

From Oconomowoc

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.