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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 Dale Connard Brewer.

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DALE CONNARD BREWER

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 28, 1948 – November 29, 1967

Service record

Dale Connard Brewer, of De Kalb, Illinois, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 29, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 3

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
July 28, 1948
Home of record
De Kalb, Illinois (De Kalb County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 3

From De Kalb

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.