HONORED ON PANEL 12E, LINE 40 OF THE WALL
HOWARD LEWIS BOWEN
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HOWARD L BOWEN
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12E/40
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POSTED ON 2.6.2023
POSTED BY: Richard Errol Clark
I MISS YOU MY FRIEND
I HAVE A pHOTO OF YOU IN YOUR CLASS A UNIFORM ON MY DRESSER.i WAS WORKING AT GENERAL ELECTRIC IN BROCKPORT NY WHEN WE MET.WE WENT TO LUNCH AT A RESTAURANT IN BROCKPORT.IM SORRY I DIDNOT GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER.YOU WERE A GOOD MAN.I TALKED TO YOUR MOM.SHE SENT ME SOME PHOTOS OF YOU.ITHINK OF YOU EVERY DAY.MAYBE ILL GET A CHANCE TO SEE YOU WHEB THAT DAY COME MISS YOU LOVE RICK CLARK
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POSTED ON 9.1.2021
POSTED BY: john fabris
honoring you....
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrances from your sisters Janet and Deborah are touching and attest to their love for you. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us.
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POSTED ON 5.14.2017
POSTED BY: Lucy Conte Micik
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DEAR STAFF SERGEANT BOWEN
THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN INFANTRYMAN. TODAY IS MOTHER'S DAY. IT HAS BEEN FAR TOO LONG FOR ALL OF YOU TO HAVE BEEN GONE. WE APPRECIATE ALL YOU HAVE DONE, AND YOUR SACRIFICE. WATCH OVER THE U.S.A., IT STILL NEEDS YOUR COURAGE. GOD BLESS YOU. MAY THE ANGELS BE AT YOUR SIDE. REST IN PEACE. YOU ARE ALL IN OUR PRAYERS.
THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN INFANTRYMAN. TODAY IS MOTHER'S DAY. IT HAS BEEN FAR TOO LONG FOR ALL OF YOU TO HAVE BEEN GONE. WE APPRECIATE ALL YOU HAVE DONE, AND YOUR SACRIFICE. WATCH OVER THE U.S.A., IT STILL NEEDS YOUR COURAGE. GOD BLESS YOU. MAY THE ANGELS BE AT YOUR SIDE. REST IN PEACE. YOU ARE ALL IN OUR PRAYERS.
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POSTED ON 9.26.2016
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Final Mission of PFC Howard L. Bowen
Operation Attleboro was a search and destroy operation conducted northwest of Dau Tieng, Tay Ninh Province, RVN, during September 14 – November 24, 1966. While the initial fighting was light, in late October U.S. forces, consisting of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade and the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (25th Infantry Division), encountered the 9th Viet Cong Division, resulting in a major three-day battle. It was a slugfest of small units set amid treacherous terrain of tangled forest, overgrown jungle, and booby-trapped elephant grass. On November 6th, an airmobile assault by two battalions from the 28th Infantry was launched in an effort to seek out a Viet Cong regiment and its base camps where fighting had been raging in the previous days. After patrols “mopped up” the hostile fire that was taken in the landing zone, the battalion settled in for the night. The next day patrols were sent out, but no enemy contact was made. On the early morning of the 8th, as the battalion was preparing to pull out, a Viet Cong battalion attacked. PFC Howard L. Bowen was on listening post duty 30 meters outside the perimeter all night before the attack. When he tried rejoining his Bravo Company in the morning before sunup, he had been shot down by the VC. A platoon fire-team leader making his rounds found Bowen, lying flat and sore, stricken with a wound in his right side. The platoon medic was called, but instead SP4 James M. Kelly came on the run, out of the dark. He knelt to examine Bowen’s wound. A bullet ripped through the left shirt pocket of his blouse, shredding the garment without breaking skin. Kelly laughed nervously. Fingering the tear, he said to the fire-team leader, “Just look at it. Isn’t it a funny one?” Suddenly, a second bullet hit Kelly through the neck, killing him instantly, then, deflecting downward, went through Bowen’s heart. The fire-team leader checked them both for pulse and heartbeat, and finding nothing, crawled on. At a foxhole 15 meter along, SP4 Nathaniel Wyley and PFC Rafael Vega-Maysonet, were dead, killed by enemy small arms fire. Meanwhile, at the platoon command post, 1LT Bernard F. Kistler had been killed by an enemy .50 caliber round through his head. In the Alpha Company sector, as the enemy blew bugles and assaulted the perimeter, CAPT Ronald V. Putnam was killed by a machine-gun burst, nine bullets hitting him in the head, five of which perforated his steel helmet. Despite the casualties, including 22 killed, the battalion, supported by air strikes, held its ground and the enemy withdrew. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, wikipedia.org, and the book “Ambush” by S.L.A. Marshall]
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