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DONALD WAYNE BROWN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 22, 1947 – January 3, 1969
Service recordDonald Wayne Brown, of Madison, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 3, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 24
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
- Wheeled Tractor Operator (62L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 554 ENG BN 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Madison, Indiana (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 3, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date January 3, 1969; 18 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 554 ENG BN 25 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 24
- PETER BINSTOCK JRCorporal · January 3, 1969
- RONALD KEITH BLOOMSpecialist Five · January 3, 1969
- GLENN EDWARD CASESpecialist Four · January 3, 1969
- ERNEST DEAN DODSONSpecialist Four · January 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TED ARNOLD WHITESpecialist Five · Panel 35W, Line 31
From Madison
- BARRY LANE RIGSBYPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- MARVIN LEO MILLERPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- GALE WILLIAM DIXONSergeant · May 22, 1968
- CECIL HOWARD HUMPHREY JRCorporal · May 31, 1968
- DICKEY CRAIGSergeant · October 19, 1970
- DONALD RUSSELL HOSKINSTechnical Sergeant · April 26, 1972
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.