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AUBREY EUGENE STOWERS JR
Major · U.S. Air Force
October 1, 1941 – March 21, 1968
Service recordAubrey Eugene Stowers JR, of Sentinel, Oklahoma, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on March 21, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 52
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
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 390 TFS
- Born
- October 1, 1941
- Home of record
- Sentinel, Oklahoma (Washita County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 21, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “390 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 45E, Line 52
- DANIEL THOMASSpecialist Four · March 21, 1968
- JUSTIN GLASTON TURNBULLCorporal · March 21, 1968
- STEPHEN JACKSON WELSHLieutenant Colonel · March 21, 1968
- RICHARD HENRY WOODWARDPrivate First Class · March 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PETER DEAN HESFORDMajor · Panel 45E, Line 47
From Sentinel
- ERNEST RAY TAYLORPrivate First Class · June 1, 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.