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AUBREY SHAWN BROWN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 17, 1948 – March 3, 1967
Service recordAubrey Shawn Brown, of Cocoa, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Cocoa, Florida (Brevard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1967; 21 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 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 7 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 7
- CHARLES HERMAN BENNETTPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- ANDREW RICHARD BROUSSARDPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- WELBORN A CALLAHAN JRFirst Lieutenant · March 3, 1967
- JESSE JAMES DIXONSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD RAY COLDEBERGSergeant · Panel 16E, Line 8
- WALTER JOSEPH FITZPATRICKSergeant First Class · Panel 16E, Line 9
From Cocoa
- JAMES HENRY BRODTCaptain · May 29, 1963
- WILLIAM L RICHARDSON JRMajor · April 2, 1966
- GERALD K TAYLORSpecialist Four · November 11, 1967
- WALTER LAWRENCE MATEJECKPrivate First Class · December 4, 1967
- BRENT JOHN TOSHSergeant · February 15, 1968
- LESTER WAYNE COXPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- FRANK MARCH JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE MACKEYCorporal · September 7, 1968
- PERRY SHELTON WHISENANTPrivate First Class · September 9, 1968
- MALCOLM ROSCOE TRUE JRPrivate First Class · December 22, 1968
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.