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LARRY HANSEN BOWEN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 30, 1951 – June 7, 1969
Service recordLarry Hansen Bowen, of Penns Grove, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 7, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 96
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
- January 30, 1951
- Home of record
- Penns Grove, New Jersey (Salem County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1969; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 96
- DAVID JOE BREDENKAMPPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- DAN BULLOCKPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- DONALD WAYNE BUNNPrivate First Class · June 7, 1969
- PHILLIP DUANE BURFOOTSpecialist Four · June 7, 1969
From Penns Grove
- CHARLES ROBERT WETZELPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- GERALD RONALD THOMPSONPrivate First Class · March 5, 1967
- ROY MORGAN JONES JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 1967
- JOHN HERBERT CHEEKSCorporal · April 28, 1967
- ALTON THOMAS JRCorporal · March 9, 1968
- MICHAEL JENNINGSLance Corporal · July 25, 1969
- THOMAS SAMUEL ROGERSWarrant Officer 1 · July 14, 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.