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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 Edward Raymond Browne.

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EDWARD RAYMOND BROWNE

Captain · U.S. Marine Corps

March 20, 1936 – July 27, 1967

Service record

Edward Raymond Browne, of San Diego, California, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 27, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 5

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Officer (I) (0802)
Born
March 20, 1936
Home of record
San Diego, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 27, 1967
Age
31
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date July 27, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 5

From San Diego

All 181 names from San Diego →

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.