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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 Lowell Greemer Einarson.

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LOWELL GREEMER EINARSON

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

March 18, 1938 – September 1, 1966

Service record

Lowell Greemer Einarson, of Bantry, North Dakota, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 1, 1966, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10E · Line 59

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Born
March 18, 1938
Home of record
Bantry, North Dakota (Mchenry County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 1, 1966
Age
28
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

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Nine names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1966; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 10E, Line 59

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.