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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Logan Brewer.

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ARTHUR LOGAN BREWER

Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

November 19, 1916 – October 21, 1968

Service record

Arthur Logan Brewer, of Worcester, Massachusetts, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on October 21, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 51. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 9

Position of Panel 40W 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. Air Force
Rank
Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
November 19, 1916
Home of record
Worcester, Massachusetts (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 21, 1968
Age
51
Province
Darlac
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date October 21, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Darlac Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 9

From Worcester

All 43 names from Worcester →

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.