Sidney A. Howe

Company C 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA April 28, 1968

 

 

 

CPL - E4 - Army - Selective Service
Note: E3 at loss. Posthumous Promotion as indicated
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B10 Infantryman
26 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on May 25, 1941
From DE QUEEN, ARKANSAS
Length of service 1 year.
His tour of duty began on Jul 10, 1967
Casualty was on Apr 28, 1968
in KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered
Religion
METHODIST

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Sidney Howe was killed in action while on Operation Mac Arthur/Binh Tay,
during the Battle of Chu Moor Mountain, approximately 25 kilometers west of Polei Krong.

 

 

CPL Sidney Howe's decorations

 

 

 

Sidney Howe in Vietnam

Photo by Andrei Pashin, C 1/22 Infantry 1968

 

 

 

Sidney Howe

Photo from the Facebook page of Sidney's son Brad

 

 

 

 

 

Burial:
Redmen Cemetery
De Queen
Sevier County
Arkansas, USA

 

Sidney A. Howe's grave marker

Photo from the Find A Grave website

 

 

 

Sidney Howe was killed in action during the Battle for Chu Moor mountain.
The website is grateful to John McKee and Charlie "Doc" Shyab

for contributing the rubbings they took of all the names
of the 1st Battalion Killed In Action during the battle for Chu Moor.

 

 

 

 

Top photo of Sidney Howe
As a Junior in High School, De Queen High 1959

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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