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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lawrence Dean Brownotter.

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LAWRENCE DEAN BROWNOTTER

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 9, 1944 – November 18, 1967

Service record

Lawrence Dean Brownotter, of Bullhead, South Dakota, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 30E · Line 13

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
December 9, 1944
Home of record
Bullhead, South Dakota (Corson County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 18, 1967
Age
22
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

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What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1967; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.

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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.