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ROBERT LEE HOWELL
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 3, 1938 – December 3, 1970
Service recordRobert Lee Howell, of Sumter, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1970, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 104
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 3, 1938
- Home of record
- Sumter, South Carolina (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1970
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1970; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 104
- FRANCISCO VEGALance Corporal · December 2, 1970
- DAVID MICHALE BAUMSpecialist Four · December 3, 1970
- JOHNNY PHILLIP GARCIAPrivate First Class · December 3, 1970
- LARRY EDWARD GILLIAMPrivate First Class · December 3, 1970
From Sumter
- ADHERENE LOUIS HAINESSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
- HAROLD MCRAE SMITHPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- LELAND EMANUEL HAMMONDLance Corporal · October 11, 1966
- ROBERT HENRY STEWARTStaff Sergeant · October 29, 1966
- ROBERT CAIN JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1966
- TERRY LYNN ANTONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- BEN WHITESergeant · July 10, 1967
- DAVID NATHANIEL GREEN JRSecond Lieutenant · July 24, 1967
- WALLACE GOURLEY HYNDS JRColonel · August 2, 1967
- CARL MCFADDEN JRPrivate First Class · March 26, 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.