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HOWARD EUGENE BROWN JR
Seaman · U.S. Navy
October 16, 1950 – January 9, 1970
Service recordHoward Eugene Brown JR, of Lebanon, Missouri, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 9, 1970, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 17
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. Navy
- Rank
- Seaman (SN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- October 16, 1950
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Missouri (Laclede County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 9, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kien Phong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 9, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Phong Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 17
- HAROLD BERNARD EISERT JRPrivate · January 9, 1970
- RONALD EUGENE EMBREESpecialist Four · January 9, 1970
- HARLAN KENNETH GAMMONS JRSpecialist Four · January 9, 1970
- WILLIAM CHARLES STEFKOFirst Lieutenant · January 9, 1970
From Lebanon
- DONNIE LEN DARROWMajor · November 30, 1967
- JAMES RILEY LEDBETTERHospitalman · March 12, 1968
- JEARL RAY PATTENSpecialist Four · April 7, 1968
- GENE RANDOLF KENNEDYSpecialist Four · March 19, 1971
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.