The U.S. Army is asking for help. In advance of planned honors at Fort Meade, Maryland, the Army is looking for the family of one of its enlisted personnel who was killed in action in Vietnam more than 50 years ago.

Sgt. Robert Townsend was 29 when he fell in South Vietnam in 1965. He was working for the Army Security Agency, which, from 1945 to 1976, was involved in military intelligence, tracking and interpreting military communications.

The National Security Agency plans to honor Townsend at the Memorial Wall in Fort Meade. His name is already on the national Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. But it has no information on him, beyond the basics, which include the fact that he graduated from from Royal Oak High School in 1954. Later, he wed Mary Edwards, with whom he had three children.

After that, pretty much nothing.

The Associated Press reported that a search of Royal Oak’s local records revealed little about Townsend, said Mike Frentz of the Royal Oak Historical Society. Frentz was able to find Townsend’s graduation picture in a yearbook.

“I looked for any other information there might have been in the yearbook on him, but there is nothing,” Frentz told AP. “We don’t have much on the veterans from the Korean and Vietnam wars like we do with World War II vets.”

If readers know anything about Townsend, they are urged to contact the authorities at Fort Meade. Let’s do everything possible to find them.