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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Brit P Lemmons.

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BRIT P LEMMONS

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

May 13, 1943 – September 10, 1967

Service record

Brit P Lemmons, of Brownwood, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 48

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC 39 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP
Born
May 13, 1943
Home of record
Brownwood, Texas (Brown County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 10, 1967
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

66 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 48

From Brownwood

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.