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RUDY GORDON BOWMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 24, 1948 – March 7, 1967
Service recordRudy Gordon Bowman, of Morrow, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Morrow, Ohio (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 34
- RICHARD ANTHONY BAGLIOPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
- STEPHEN PAUL BLANCHETTPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
- OSCAR EDWARD CHAMBERSSecond Lieutenant · March 7, 1967
- BENNIE LEE CROSSSergeant · March 7, 1967
From Morrow
- DAVID HENRY WAINSCOTTStaff Sergeant · November 9, 1967
- RONALD LEE EVANSChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 29, 1971
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.