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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank Harold Browne II.

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FRANK HAROLD BROWNE II

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 18, 1949 – January 17, 1969

Service record

Frank Harold Browne II, of Ft Worth, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34W · Line 21

Position of Panel 34W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 18, 1949
Home of record
Ft Worth, Texas (Tarrant County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 17, 1969
Age
19
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1969; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34W, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Ft Worth

All 168 names from Ft Worth →

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.