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RICHARD HOMER LOWERY
Major · U.S. Army
February 18, 1932 – December 30, 1966
Service recordRichard Homer Lowery, of Ellerslie, Maryland, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on December 30, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 102
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 18, 1932
- Home of record
- Ellerslie, Maryland (Allegany County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 30, 1966
- Age
- 34
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 102
- CARL EUGENE BOLDENLance Corporal · December 30, 1966
- RANDOLPH SCOTT HUTCHINSONPrivate First Class · December 30, 1966
- JOHN GILBERT LARSONPrivate First Class · December 30, 1966
- ERIC C MAGNUSON JRSpecialist Four · December 30, 1966
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD IRWIN STARRCaptain · Panel 13E, Line 103
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.