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LEE ANDREW BOWDEN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 20, 1944 – April 6, 1968
Service recordLee Andrew Bowden, of Lumberton, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 23
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 20, 1944
- Home of record
- Lumberton, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 23
- ROBERT LEE BARKER JRPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- RONALD MARVIN BEECKSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- JAMES TERRELL BLALOCKPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD M BARGARSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 22
- IVAN ROBERT FEBO-BETANCOURTSergeant · Panel 48E, Line 22
- JOSE BRENES-ESCOBARPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 24
- MARK OWEN CHARETTESergeant · Panel 48E, Line 25
- ROBERT EDWARD COOKSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 25
- PAUL PATRICK DAVISPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 25
- ALAN ROBERT HAUGENFirst Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 27
- FREDERICK EUGENE LOVESpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 29
- JOSEPH STANLEY NITKAStaff Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 31
- BENITO BOBO RODRIGUEZSergeant · Panel 48E, Line 32
- DANIEL ALBERT ROCHAPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 33
- JAMES RUSSELL SANFORD JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 34
- JAMES EVERETT SILFEEPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 34
- ALFRED DOUGLAS SMITH JRPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 34
- DANIEL RAY TWITTYPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 36
- DONALD LEE WALLStaff Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 36
- LEE ARTHUR WATSONPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 37
From Lumberton
- DAVID THOMPSONSergeant First Class · January 27, 1964
- FRANKLIN EUGENE HOSLERSergeant · April 4, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MCRAESpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- TIMOTHY COLEMAN PATTERSONSergeant · April 22, 1967
- HARRY L ALWAYFirst Lieutenant · July 13, 1967
- CECIL A MEARESSergeant First Class · September 23, 1967
- GLENN DIRK KERNSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- HUGHIE OXENDINEStaff Sergeant · December 25, 1967
- DONALD FRANK MCKENZIEStaff Sergeant · December 10, 1968
- HARRY HUTCHISON GIBSONFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
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.