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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 Charles Norman Brown.

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CHARLES NORMAN BROWN

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

September 1, 1946 – July 11, 1967

Service record

Charles Norman Brown, of Sebago Lake, Maine, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 49

Position of Panel 23E 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 1, 1946
Home of record
Sebago Lake, Maine (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 11, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 49

Same unit, same day

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.