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LARRY JOSEPH LOWTHER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 23, 1949 – June 20, 1970
Service recordLarry Joseph Lowther, of Volga, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Volga, West Virginia (Barbour County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 73
- THOMAS DWAIN GRIFFINPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- MERRIL HOLTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- FREDERICK WAYNE HOPSONPrivate First Class · June 20, 1970
- JOSEPH PATRICK LUTZSpecialist Four · June 20, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MELVIN NEAL RUTHERFORDSergeant · Panel 9W, Line 74
From Volga
- ISAAC PAUL HUFFMANPrivate First Class · October 11, 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.