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HENRY LAWRENCE OWENS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 1, 1947 – May 14, 1969
Service recordHenry Lawrence Owens, of Effingham, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 9
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Effingham, South Carolina (Florence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 9
- LESLIE LEROY MCCORKLECorporal · May 14, 1969
- WILLIAM LEWIS MCGOWANSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- JIMMY LEE MCLELLANSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- LUTHER MORGAN JRSergeant · May 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES EDWARD BOUTTRYCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 1
- RONALD WALTER FEROUGESpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 5
- MICHAEL KENT FULTZSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 5
- ROBERT M HIGGINBOTHAMSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 6
From Effingham
- HARMON JULIOUS PIGATTPrivate First Class · February 12, 1967
- FREDFOR EDWARDSSpecialist Four · August 22, 1968
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.