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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Russell Fowler.

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EUGENE RUSSELL FOWLER

Captain · U.S. Army

March 16, 1931 – April 27, 1965

Service record

Eugene Russell Fowler, of Terre Haute, Indiana, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 109

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
March 16, 1931
Home of record
Terre Haute, Indiana (Vigo County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 27, 1965
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1965. In April 1965, 61 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 109

From Terre Haute

All 27 names from Terre Haute →

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.