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DAVIS FREEMAN BROWN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 10, 1948 – May 22, 1968
Service recordDavis Freeman Brown, of Winter Park, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65E · Line 5
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Winter Park, Florida (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 65E, Line 5
- DENVER JOSEPH BERKHEIMERLance Corporal · May 22, 1968
- WILLIAM RONALD BISSELLPrivate · May 22, 1968
- DARRELL DWANE BRATTONPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- BILLY MAC BRISTERSergeant · May 22, 1968
From Winter Park
- JOHN LUCIUS HOUSTONSergeant · July 6, 1964
- GEOFFREY HOLMES OSBORNLieutenant (junior grade) · September 24, 1965
- TIMOTHY ANDREW VELTMANSpecialist Four · August 4, 1966
- JOE ALBERT CRUTCHERPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- GARY JOSEPH BELLPrivate First Class · March 4, 1968
- CHARLES CLARK IIFirst Lieutenant · October 7, 1968
- JAMES DAVID WRIGHT JRCorporal · March 22, 1969
- KENNETH LEROY WITHAMLance Corporal · March 27, 1969
- JOSEPH WOODARDCaptain · May 6, 1969
- HAL EDWARD PERRYChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 9, 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.