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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clinton Ray Brown.

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CLINTON RAY BROWN

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 20, 1945 – May 20, 1966

Service record

Clinton Ray Brown, of Huntsville, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 20, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 88

Position of Panel 7E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
F CO 2 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
December 20, 1945
Home of record
Huntsville, Texas (Walker County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 20, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 88

From Huntsville

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.