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HAROLD EDWARD COWEN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
March 22, 1943 – September 20, 1971
Service recordHarold Edward Cowen, of Eminence, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 20, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 21
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Structural Mech (Structures) (AMS)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- March 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Eminence, Missouri (Shannon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 20, 1971
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1971; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 21
- IRA CHARLES BRANKSpecialist Five · September 20, 1971
- LAWRENCE LEROY COVERLieutenant Commander · September 20, 1971
- DUANE GARTH FORGETTESpecialist Four · September 20, 1971
- LAWRENCE BRADFORD FORRESTERAirman First Class · September 20, 1971
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE LEROY COVERLieutenant Commander · Panel 2W, Line 21
- CHARLES HENRY GOLDBINPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 2W, Line 22
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.