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ERIC PARKER BRICE
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
April 6, 1943 – June 4, 1968
Service recordEric Parker Brice, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 4, 1968, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VF 33 USS AMERICA CVA 66
- Born
- April 6, 1943
- Home of record
- Rocky Mount, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 4, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1968. In June 1968, 1,257 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.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 60W, Line 8
- RAYMOND ARTHUR BORDUASPrivate First Class · June 4, 1968
- TADEUSZ JAN BOROWSKICorporal · June 4, 1968
- EARL WILLIAM COBBLEY JRCorporal · June 4, 1968
- DANIEL JOHN DABREUPrivate First Class · June 4, 1968
From Rocky Mount
- THOMAS HENRY MAULTSBY JRSergeant First Class · July 10, 1964
- GEORGE FOXESpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- ROSCOE L VICKSpecialist Four · March 4, 1966
- HUGH REAVIS NELSON JRCaptain · June 5, 1966
- NAPOLEN KELLY COOPERPrivate First Class · February 14, 1967
- JESSE JAMES DIXONSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
- MACK DANIEL SIMMONS IIISpecialist Four · May 22, 1967
- CARL DOUGLAS DUDLEY JRPetty Officer Third Class · June 27, 1967
- CURTIS LEE KENNEDYSpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
- WILLIAM DARRELL JOHNSONSergeant First Class · January 19, 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.