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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Henry Richard Brommann.

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HENRY RICHARD BROMMANN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 8, 1945 – March 6, 1968

Service record

Henry Richard Brommann, of Miami, Florida, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 43E · Line 14

Position of Panel 43E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
September 8, 1945
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 43E, Line 14

Same unit, same day

From Miami

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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.