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BOBBY RAY BROWN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 15, 1948 – June 14, 1969
Service recordBobby Ray Brown, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 45
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- March 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 45
- KENNETH LEE CONNERPrivate First Class · June 13, 1969
- HENSON FRANK WALKERSpecialist Four · June 13, 1969
- THOMAS JOHN WILKSpecialist Four · June 13, 1969
- CARLOS AVILA YOUNGPrivate First Class · June 13, 1969
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.