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LARRY DEAN LOWERY
Specialist Six · U.S. Army
July 6, 1940 – April 27, 1969
Service recordLarry Dean Lowery, of Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Six (SP6)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ch-34 Helicopter Repairman (67P)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- July 6, 1940
- Home of record
- Cave-In-Rock, Illinois (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 65
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM MAHURTERPrivate First Class · April 27, 1969
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCFARLANDSpecialist Five · April 27, 1969
- PHILLIP SHERMAN MOHNIKEChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 27, 1969
- ARVIN LEE OQUINNPrivate First Class · April 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES DENNIS CROWSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 61
- ALAN BRIAN DENHOFFSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 62
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCFARLANDSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 65
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.