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EDGAR LEE BOWERS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 19, 1947 – July 17, 1968
Service recordEdgar Lee Bowers, of Cooleemee, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 40
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Cooleemee, North Carolina (Davie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 52W, Line 40
- CHARLES WESLEY SRADER JRPrivate First Class · July 16, 1968
- RAYMOND EARL WRIGHTCorporal · July 16, 1968
- JACOB BENNETTPrivate First Class · July 17, 1968
- PRENTICE J BENNETTCorporal · July 17, 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.