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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Brewster Lowe.

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ROBERT BREWSTER LOWE

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 23, 1942 – April 29, 1966

Service record

Robert Brewster Lowe, of Bradenton, Florida, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 10

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Fixed Wing Aviation Unit Commander (1980)
Born
January 23, 1942
Home of record
Bradenton, Florida (Manatee County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1966
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 10

From Bradenton

All 18 names from Bradenton →

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.