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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Eugene Fowler.

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LARRY EUGENE FOWLER

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 19, 1946 – February 22, 1967

Service record

Larry Eugene Fowler, of Hickory, North Carolina, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 22, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 73

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Born
April 19, 1946
Home of record
Hickory, North Carolina (Catawba County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 73

From Hickory

All 17 names from Hickory →

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.