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RAYMOND LEWIS BOWEN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 16, 1945 – January 24, 1966
Service recordRaymond Lewis Bowen JR, of Hannibal, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 84
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Chaplain Assistant (71M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 16, 1945
- Home of record
- Hannibal, New York (Oswego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 4E, Line 84
- ROY SHIGERU KOBAYASHICaptain · January 23, 1966
- DELMAR GEORGE BOOZECaptain · January 24, 1966
- EDWARD JAN COXSergeant First Class · January 24, 1966
- LAWRENCE NEAL HELBERCaptain · January 24, 1966
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.