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JOE D STOWERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 8, 1947 – March 31, 1967
Service recordJoe D Stowers, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 31, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 81
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Chapmanville, West Virginia (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 81
- WILLIAM CHARLES RELFPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- JAMES MYRON RINGLEPrivate · March 31, 1967
- GARY FREDERICK SCHULERSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
- RONALD HUBERT SOUTHWORTHCorporal · March 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD ALFRED HILLFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 79
- MICHAEL J LAURIEPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 79
- PATRICK TIMOTHY MERCIERSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 80
- WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 80
- THOMAS M HANNIGAN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 82
- CHARLES G H SUMMERSSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 82
- DELBERT CHAN TOTTYPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 82
From Chapmanville
- ROBERT CLAYTON STEPHENSONPrivate First Class · April 23, 1967
- EDWARD LESTERPrivate First Class · July 9, 1968
- JAMES LEONARD EPLINStaff Sergeant · November 13, 1968
- GLENN ROGER WORKMANPrivate First Class · July 3, 1969
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.