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JAMES BERNARD LOW
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
June 13, 1951 – April 3, 1971
Service recordJames Bernard Low, of Beaver, Utah, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1971, in Laos, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · 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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 13, 1951
- Home of record
- Beaver, Utah (Beaver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1971. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 4W, Line 104
- EDWARD JOSEPH ROG JRSpecialist Four · April 3, 1971
- FRED BRYAN ROSENBERRYSergeant · April 3, 1971
- FELIX MARCIAL TRUJILLOSergeant · April 3, 1971
- HOWARD OTTO WARBINGTONStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
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.