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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Lee Brodeur.

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DAVID LEE BRODEUR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 6, 1946 – December 5, 1965

Service record

David Lee Brodeur, of St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 125

Position of Panel 3E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 6, 1946
Home of record
St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (St Thomas County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1965
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 125

Same unit, same day

From St Thomas

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.