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EARNEST LON LOWE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 5, 1940 – October 15, 1968
Service recordEarnest Lon Lowe, of Caryville, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 64
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 5, 1940
- Home of record
- Caryville, Tennessee (Campbell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 15, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date October 15, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 64
- HAROLD WARREN BUTTZPrivate · October 15, 1968
- JULIUS CLYDE FAIRCLOTHSergeant · October 15, 1968
- NEIL JAY MORRISPrivate First Class · October 15, 1968
- STEPHEN GRIFFITH MONTAGUECorporal · October 16, 1968
From Caryville
- LONNIE JUNIOR ROBBINSPrivate First Class · September 18, 1967
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.