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JOE DAVID BROWN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 4, 1933 – January 28, 1968
Service recordJoe David Brown, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 28, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 53
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 4, 1933
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 53
- JOHNIE RAY BARBERSpecialist Four · January 28, 1968
- THEODORE CHRYSTYNYCZPrivate First Class · January 28, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES DAVIDSON JRSpecialist Four · January 28, 1968
- EDWARD KENT PETERSCorporal · January 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROGER DELL QUILLENPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 56
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 1967
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.