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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Ray Trower.

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GARY RAY TROWER

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 9, 1947 – May 18, 1969

Service record

Gary Ray Trower, of Chapman, Kansas, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 18, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 24W · Line 50

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
May 9, 1947
Home of record
Chapman, Kansas (Dickinson County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 18, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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81 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Chapman

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.