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FREDDIE LEON LOWERY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 4, 1949 – September 18, 1968
Service recordFreddie Leon Lowery, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 29
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle Crewman (1833)
- Born
- October 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Guthrie, Oklahoma (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 29
- CHRISTOPHER DUTCHER LUCCIChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 18, 1968
- GILBERT MERILL MAESTASSergeant · September 18, 1968
- JAMES RAYMOND MCCOYPrivate First Class · September 18, 1968
- CHESTER MCDANIELCorporal · September 18, 1968
From Guthrie
- QUINNEN T CHANDLER JRCorporal · October 1, 1967
- ERNEST EUGENE BEAMPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- LARRY RAY SHORTSpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
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.