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JAMES LEE BROWN
Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 19, 1929 – December 19, 1967
Service recordJames Lee Brown, of Taylors, South Carolina, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 20
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
- Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 19, 1929
- Home of record
- Taylors, South Carolina (Greenville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1967
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 20
- JOHN DANIEL BARNETT JRPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- RALPH DANIEL BOBIANLance Corporal · December 19, 1967
- WALTER OTHO BROWN JRSergeant First Class · December 19, 1967
- ANTHONY VICTOR CAMPANIELLOSpecialist Four · December 19, 1967
From Taylors
- LARRY EMERSON POTTERCorporal · July 16, 1966
- DAVID D DAVENPORT JRPrivate First Class · February 5, 1967
- MARVIN WHITNER BOWENCorporal · January 18, 1968
- MICHAEL JEFFERSON TRUSTYPrivate First Class · September 6, 1969
- LEWIS ANTHONY DAVISSeaman Apprentice · March 17, 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.