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JIMMY MAC BRASHER
Captain · U.S. Army
April 9, 1941 – September 28, 1966
Service recordJimmy Mac Brasher, of Canyon, Texas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He was lost on September 28, 1966, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 33
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Fixed Wing Aviation Unit Commander (1980)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 131 AVN CO
- Born
- April 9, 1941
- Home of record
- Canyon, Texas (Randall County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 28, 1966
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Presumed Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “131 AVN CO”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 28E, Line 33
- ROBERT YATES SRLance Corporal · October 17, 1967
- JOHN FREDERICK BARRLieutenant Commander · October 18, 1967
- CLAUDE CHARLES BETTYCorporal · October 18, 1967
- JOSEPH OTIS BOOKERPrivate First Class · October 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EDWARD PITTMANSpecialist Four · Panel 28E, Line 38
From Canyon
- DONALD RAY BLAIRCaptain · January 8, 1966
- DANIEL LEO STOCKERPrivate First Class · June 8, 1968
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.