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JOHN COOKE BREWTON
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
September 5, 1943 – January 11, 1970
Service recordJohn Cooke Brewton, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 11, 1970, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 28
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1105)
- Born
- September 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 1970
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- 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 January 11, 1970; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 28
- RICHARD BRUCE SPENCECorporal · January 11, 1970
- EDWARD ALLEN BISCHOFFPrivate First Class · January 12, 1970
- JIMMY LEE CHAMBLISSSpecialist Four · January 12, 1970
- JAMES GILBERT DALTONPrivate First Class · January 12, 1970
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.