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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerome Albert Browder JR.

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JEROME ALBERT BROWDER JR

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 23, 1942 – August 19, 1971

Service record

Jerome Albert Browder JR, of Knoxville, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1971, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 134 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 134

Position of Panel 3W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
July 23, 1942
Home of record
Knoxville, Tennessee (Knox County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 19, 1971
Age
29
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Five names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1971; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In August 1971, 116 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 134

Same unit, same day

From Knoxville

All 76 names from Knoxville →

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.