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JAMES LAVERN BOWMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 21, 1947 – March 28, 1968
Service recordJames Lavern Bowman, of Dundee, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 52
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Dundee, Michigan (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
He died in Long An Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 52
- CLIFFORD LEROY WILLIAMSCorporal · March 27, 1968
- PEDER WALTER ARMSTRONGPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- PETER NELSON BALDWINSergeant · March 28, 1968
- ALAN LEE BOYERSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND CHARLES DOWNINSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 53
- PAUL DAVID KUEHLPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 56
- FREDERICK DONALD MCCARTYSergeant First Class · Panel 46E, Line 57
- LAWRENCE W OMEARASpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 58
- JOSEPH CONARD PARK JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 46E, Line 58
- JOSEPH FRANCIS SCHLICKSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 59
- ELMORE ROBERT SIMPSONPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 46E, Line 59
From Dundee
- ALBERT EUGENE DUSSEAUPrivate First Class · December 10, 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.