Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 2-Oct-1946
Hometown: Dillon, South Carolina
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 4-Jan-1966
Start of tour: 1-Dec-1966
Incident date: 4-Sep-1967
Date of casualty: 4-Sep-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
James Eugene Owens died as the result of metal fragment wounds received when military vehicle in which was passenger was hit by hostile RPG round while on convoy.
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Dillon, South Carolina, USA
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