Tower, Wayne E.
Navy Communications technician

Wayne E. Tower, age 22, from Hampden County Blandford, Massachusetts .

Parents: Robert W. Tower

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Westfield High graduate

Date of death: Friday, September 24, 1965
Death details: Killed in Japan in a dawn fire that destroyed a two-story communication building that was engaged in classified work relaying messages between ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in water off Vietnam and land installations.

Source: Associated Press (1965), Boston Globe (1965)