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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dana E Brann.

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DANA E BRANN

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

August 8, 1946 – November 16, 1965

Service record

Dana E Brann, of Brookline, Massachusetts, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 65

Position of Panel 3E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
August 8, 1946
Home of record
Brookline, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 16, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 65

From Brookline

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.