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DAVID T BROOKS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 12, 1943 – November 18, 1967
Service recordDavid T Brooks, of Tecumseh, Michigan, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 12, 1943
- Home of record
- Tecumseh, Michigan (Lenawee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 18, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1967; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 13
- DOUGLAS BRUCE BAUMSergeant · November 18, 1967
- ERWIN BEEKSpecialist Four · November 18, 1967
- LAWRENCE DEAN BROWNOTTERCorporal · November 18, 1967
- EDWARD BURKE BURDETTBrigadier General · November 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE DEAN BROWNOTTERCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 13
- JAMES ALBERT DAILEYSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 14
- ROBERT ALLEN HARTWELLSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 15
- WILLIAM BERNARD MCGARVEYSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 17
- WILLIE REEDSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 18
- HUGH DON SCOTTCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 19
- HARMON S STONE JRCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 20
From Tecumseh
- RICKIE D SPARKSSergeant · November 18, 1967
- DONALD LEE RUDDPetty Officer Second Class · March 3, 1969
- RONALD EUGENE GERTENCorporal · December 31, 1970
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.