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HARRY LEE SOWELL JR
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 10, 1947 – April 23, 1968
Service recordHarry Lee Sowell JR, of Kershaw, South Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 23, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Kershaw, South Carolina (Kershaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 23, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 42
- JAMES EDWARD RAINBOLTSpecialist Four · April 23, 1968
- ARTHUR WILFRED ROMEROLance Corporal · April 23, 1968
- JOSEPH SANTORISergeant · April 23, 1968
- DAVID PAUL SPEATHCorporal · April 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS KEITH BEAMONSpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 36
- MICHAEL CACCIUTTOLOPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 36
- MORRIS ELTON CASHSergeant Major · Panel 51E, Line 36
From Kershaw
- WYLIE ORIA PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · December 30, 1967
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.