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DONALD HUBERT BROWN JR
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
August 22, 1938 – August 12, 1965
Service recordDonald Hubert Brown JR, of Berkeley, California, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 12, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 51
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Born
- August 22, 1938
- Home of record
- Berkeley, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 12, 1965
- Age
- 26
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date August 12, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 51
- ROBERT HOWARD FUELLHARTCaptain · August 12, 1965
- RONALD CALVIN KRAUSFirst Lieutenant · August 12, 1965
- GEORGE ABRAHAM DELUCAMaster Sergeant · August 13, 1965
- GENE RAYMOND GOLLAHONLieutenant · August 13, 1965
From Berkeley
- ZOLTAN ALAJOS KOVACSWarrant Officer 1 · June 10, 1965
- WINFIELD WADE SISSONColonel · October 18, 1965
- PHILIP MICHAEL CALLANPrivate First Class · October 4, 1966
- KENNETH ROBBINS CAMERONCaptain · May 18, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES HARECorporal · June 17, 1967
- CHARLES RICHARD MULLAN JRHospitalman · June 28, 1967
- DONALD LEROY GASSERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1967
- ALLEN HIDEO HARANOPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- JAMES OSCAR WESTPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- ESMOND EMERSON SNELL JRFirst Lieutenant · April 16, 1968
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.