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ROBERT LEE OWENS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 26, 1945 – May 10, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Owens, of Beaufort, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 12
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 26, 1945
- Home of record
- Beaufort, South Carolina (Beaufort County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 58E, Line 12
- RUDY LOPEZPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN MOLTZANSpecialist Five · May 10, 1968
- JAMES RAYMOND OVESONLance Corporal · May 10, 1968
- WAYNE THOMAS PROVENCHERPrivate First Class · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES SCOTT BROWNCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 4
- WARREN GRAYSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 7
- WILLIAM C SPROULE JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 58E, Line 15
- ROGER ZIMMERMANStaff Sergeant · Panel 58E, Line 18
From Beaufort
- JOHN LANE CHESEBROUGHPrivate First Class · September 17, 1969
- JAMES EDWIN MELVIN JRSergeant · December 13, 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.