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TAYLOR BROOKS HOWARD JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
August 22, 1939 – April 18, 1968
Service recordTaylor Brooks Howard JR, of Rochester, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on April 18, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 39
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- August 22, 1939
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 39
- GILBERT EDWARD BUCHANANSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- UDO HANNIGANPrivate · April 18, 1968
- EARLIE HENRY HICKS JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- MICHAEL PETER HOUGHPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.