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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Harry Brower.

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DONALD HARRY BROWER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 15, 1944 – March 18, 1967

Service record

Donald Harry Brower, of Neptune, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 104

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
December 15, 1944
Home of record
Neptune, New Jersey (Monmouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 18, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 104

From Neptune

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.