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HARRY LEE POWERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 19, 1946 – November 21, 1966
Service recordHarry Lee Powers, of El Dorado Springs, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 104
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- September 19, 1946
- Home of record
- El Dorado Springs, Missouri (Cedar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 104
- LARRY DUANE NAASZPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- HERBERT PEARSALL JRSergeant · November 21, 1966
- MICHAEL H PENNELLPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOSEPH LEVERN RABONPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- RUSSELL LOUIS HALLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 100
- RAY ELLSWORTH JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 12E, Line 101
- JIMMY LINWOOD RHODESSpecialist Four · Panel 12E, Line 105
From El Dorado Springs
- DERRILL LE ROY PRICE JRSpecialist Four · May 24, 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.