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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 James Warren Brown.

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JAMES WARREN BROWN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 16, 1946 – March 13, 1966

Service record

James Warren Brown, of Campton, New Hampshire, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 2

Position of Panel 6E 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
July 16, 1946
Home of record
Campton, New Hampshire (Grafton County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 13, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 2

From Campton

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.