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EDWARD ALLEN BROOKS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 3, 1948 – May 20, 1969
Service recordEdward Allen Brooks, of Springfield, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Springfield, Missouri (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Hamburger Hill was under way. On Đồng Ấp Bia (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley (10–20 May 1969), the 101st Airborne Division attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops for ten days; the soldiers called it “Hamburger Hill.” The heavy losses fed the debate at home over the war’s tactics. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 24W, Line 58
- ROBERT WALTER BUCKLEYSpecialist Four · May 20, 1969
- JOE THOMAS CONKLEFirst Lieutenant · May 20, 1969
- LARRY FLOYD DODDSSpecialist Four · May 20, 1969
- DONOVAN RUSSEL FLUHARTYSpecialist Four · May 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOE THOMAS CONKLEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 24W, Line 58
- ANTHONY BONGOSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 59
- WILLIAM LINCOLN MARCYSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 60
From Springfield
- SHEPHEN HIETT PHILLIPSSergeant · July 18, 1965
- WILBERT CLAUDE DAVISSergeant · October 12, 1965
- DAVID MARSHALL KNIGHTSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- DOUGLAS BLAKE HAMILTONPrivate First Class · April 24, 1967
- JACK EUGENE GOSS IIPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- RANDALL KERWIN RUSSELLSergeant · July 6, 1967
- ROBERT DEAN CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · October 24, 1967
- JAMES DOYLE STOKESPrivate · November 30, 1967
- CHARLES KIRBY WILCOXCaptain · January 9, 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.