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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Ray Owens.

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LARRY RAY OWENS

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

June 25, 1946 – October 8, 1969

Service record

Larry Ray Owens, of Lusk, Wyoming, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 8, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17W · Line 51

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Steelworker (SW)
Unit (as recorded)
NAACB 1 3 NC BDE
Born
June 25, 1946
Home of record
Lusk, Wyoming (Niobrara County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 8, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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24 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 17W, Line 51

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.