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LOWELL VETTER SMITH
Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
October 23, 1933 – February 24, 1968
Service recordLowell Vetter Smith, of Banner Elk, North Carolina, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on February 24, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 12
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- October 23, 1933
- Home of record
- Banner Elk, North Carolina (Avery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 24, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1968; eight of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 41E, Line 12
- ALFRED SATURN NAJAR JRCorporal · February 24, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE OSUSKIStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
- CARL J REIDStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
- JOHNNY ROSE JRStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
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.