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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jeffrey Joseph Brown.

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JEFFREY JOSEPH BROWN

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

February 26, 1946 – November 22, 1967

Service record

Jeffrey Joseph Brown, of Denville, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 22, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 63

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electronics Technician (Submarine) (ET)
Born
February 26, 1946
Home of record
Denville, New Jersey (Morris County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 22, 1967
Age
21
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 63

From Denville

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.