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LESLIE VON BOWMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 30, 1947 – November 1, 1968
Service recordLeslie Von Bowman, of Wallace, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 71
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Wallace, Indiana (Fountain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
67 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1968; five of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 71
- JACKIE CHARLES CARTERSeaman Apprentice · November 1, 1968
- THURL GUY CARTER IIISpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
- RICHARD CORTEZ CARTWRIGHTPetty Officer First Class · November 1, 1968
- TIMOTHY CHARLES DUNNINGSeaman · November 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST FRISSELL COOKE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 40W, Line 72
- WILFREDO CINTRON-MENDEZSpecialist Four · Panel 40W, Line 75
- PAULL DAVID JOSESpecialist Four · Panel 40W, Line 77
- DENNIS KENNETH OCONNORSergeant · Panel 39W, Line 3
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.