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ROBERT JAMES BOWDERN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 2, 1947 – April 27, 1968
Service recordRobert James Bowdern JR, of Pagedale, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 27
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 2, 1947
- Home of record
- Pagedale, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1968; five of them were lost in Long An Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 27
- DONALD EDWARD ANGERMANPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
- ROBERT BADCOCKStaff Sergeant · April 27, 1968
- CHARLES JOSEPH BONGARTZPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
- JOHN PATRICK KELLEYPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES JOSEPH BONGARTZPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 27
- JONATHON LEE GENSSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 29
- FERNANDO GUTIERREZPrivate First Class · Panel 52E, Line 29
- FRED OLIVER JRCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 31
From Pagedale
- RICHARD LEWIS HUPP JRPrivate First Class · July 18, 1969
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.