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JAMES HARRELL FOWLER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 20, 1947 – April 5, 1967
Service recordJames Harrell Fowler, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 5, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Ponca City, Oklahoma (Kay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 104
- BERT GUERRA IIIPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- PAUL LEROY HARRISONPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- MARION RAY HUTCHINSPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- KENNETH ROBERT JAMERSONLance Corporal · April 5, 1967
From Ponca City
- WILLIAM DONALD REYNOLDSCaptain · March 28, 1965
- CLARENCE GENE FORMANPrivate First Class · June 18, 1966
- VERN LEE PRAYSergeant · January 9, 1967
- JAMES JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · May 21, 1967
- EDGAR ALLEN CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- FREDERICK EUGENE ROUSESpecialist Four · September 28, 1968
- LARRY DEAN KEELERSpecialist Five · December 15, 1969
- LEWIS EARL COXCorporal · May 19, 1970
- ELROY FREDERICK WELLSStaff Sergeant · December 27, 1970
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.