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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert C Brose.

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ALBERT C BROSE

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

January 21, 1942 – May 18, 1967

Service record

Albert C Brose, of Lansing, Illinois, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 21

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 227 ASLT HELO BN 1 CAV DIV
Born
January 21, 1942
Home of record
Lansing, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 18, 1967
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 21

From Lansing

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.