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RAY RAMSEY JOWERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 17, 1947 – March 18, 1969
Service recordRay Ramsey Jowers, of Mckenzie, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 69
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Mckenzie, Tennessee (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 69
- DARCY ALLEN HOUCHINPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- BARRY JACKSONSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- KENNETH JOSEPH KNOEFERLGunnery Sergeant · March 18, 1969
- BARRY DANIEL MURPHYSpecialist Five · March 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LLOYD BALDWINFirst Lieutenant · Panel 29W, Line 65
- MICHAEL JOHN CAPUTOCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 66
- RICHARD HAROLD MEHEGANSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 70
- ROBERT A MCINTOSHSergeant · Panel 29W, Line 71
From Mckenzie
- SAMUEL ALEXANDER DUMASSpecialist Four · March 11, 1970
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.