The Wall › Panel 3E › Virginia › Dwight Pollard Bowles
DWIGHT POLLARD BOWLES
Major · U.S. Air Force
February 4, 1932 – November 3, 1965
Service recordDwight Pollard Bowles, of Staunton, Virginia, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 3, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 14
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 562 TFS
- Born
- February 4, 1932
- Home of record
- Staunton, Virginia (Staunton (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 3, 1965
- Age
- 33
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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
Also on Panel 3E, Line 14
- DOMINGO BALANSAY VINLUANSergeant · November 1, 1965
- EVERETT ROBERT ANDERSONSergeant First Class · November 3, 1965
- SAMUEL BESSStaff Sergeant · November 3, 1965
- MARK GORDON HINKLEPrivate First Class · November 3, 1965
From Staunton
- WOODROW MELVIN FITZGERALDCaptain · October 24, 1963
- CHARLES KENNETH MORAN JRLieutenant · February 25, 1965
- JERRY HOGUE HEIZERPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- CLARENCE WILLIS OBIE IIILance Corporal · December 22, 1967
- THOMAS JOSEPH RICHARDS JRCorporal · May 10, 1968
- DENHAM A WHITESELL JRLance Corporal · December 2, 1968
- VICTOR LEE ELLINGERFirst Lieutenant · November 24, 1970
- FRANKLIN U BRECKENRIDGESpecialist Four · November 28, 1970
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.