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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn William Mowrey.

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GLENN WILLIAM MOWREY

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 22, 1946 – March 26, 1968

Service record

Glenn William Mowrey, of Chillicothe, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 26, 1968, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46E · Line 39

Position of Panel 46E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Laundry Machine Operator (3261)
Unit (as recorded)
HS CO FLSG A FORLOGCOMD FMF
Born
May 22, 1946
Home of record
Chillicothe, Ohio (Ross County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1968
Age
21
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 46E, Line 39

From Chillicothe

All 19 names from Chillicothe →

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.