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CHARLES LYNN BROWN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 15, 1950 – May 12, 1969
Service recordCharles Lynn Brown, of Bellflower, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 62
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 15, 1950
- Home of record
- Bellflower, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Hamburger Hill was under way. On Đồng Ấp Bia (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley (10–20 May 1969), the 101st Airborne Division attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops for ten days; the soldiers called it “Hamburger Hill.” The heavy losses fed the debate at home over the war’s tactics. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 25W, Line 62
- DAVID JOSEPH BORONSeaman · May 12, 1969
- CURTIS BREEDLOVESecond Lieutenant · May 12, 1969
- KENNETH LEE BRINKSStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1969
- GEORGE ARTHUR BROWNCorporal · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN WAYNE DEAROSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 63
- JOSEPH LAWRENCE LOGAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 75
From Bellflower
- DUDLEY WAYNE MAYOSeaman · May 10, 1965
- FRED THOMAS EARLESPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GOODENPrivate First Class · July 15, 1966
- BERRY JOE BRIDGESPrivate First Class · June 14, 1967
- JACK PATRICK COTTERELLSpecialist Four · January 25, 1968
- CHARLES CLAIR THOMPSONSpecialist Four · April 11, 1968
- DAVID JOE BERRYSpecialist Four · April 28, 1968
- TOMMY WAYNE JOHNSTONSpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- ROBERT CLARENCE EWALDLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- DONALD ACE PETTITTPrivate · December 13, 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.