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JAMES DALE BOWERS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 28, 1946 – July 2, 1966
Service recordJames Dale Bowers, of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 2, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 117
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Edinboro, Pennsylvania (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 117
- ROBERT CYRIL WILLIAMSMajor · July 1, 1966
- JOHNNY WOODSONPrivate First Class · July 1, 1966
- JAMES B BARTLETTSergeant · July 2, 1966
- GERALD LEROY BERGPrivate First Class · July 2, 1966
From Edinboro
- JOHN YEASTPrivate First Class · August 3, 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.