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DENNIS JAMES BROWNING
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 31, 1947 – September 23, 1969
Service recordDennis James Browning, of Retsil, Washington, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 23, 1969, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 127
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Marine Hull Repairman (44K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Retsil, Washington (Kitsap County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 23, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 127
- CLINTON EUGENE MILLERCorporal · September 22, 1969
- JAMES IRVINE YATESCorporal · September 22, 1969
- ROWLAND NATHANIEL AGARDPrivate · September 23, 1969
- SHELTON FERRELL BARRSSergeant First Class · September 23, 1969
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.