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LAWRENCE JAMES BROWN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 31, 1948 – December 7, 1968
Service recordLawrence James Brown, of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 7, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 54
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 54
- WILLIAM WALTER WAGNERPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- RODOLFO JOSE ARCHULETASpecialist Four · December 7, 1968
- JIMMY DEAN BIGGSPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JAMES WISDOM BOWLINGPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK PUGLIESECorporal · Panel 37W, Line 58
- JAY JULIUS SCHMIDSergeant · Panel 37W, Line 59
From Turtle Creek
- MICHAEL JOHN ESTOCINCommander · April 26, 1967
- LOUIS ARTHUR FRYESergeant First Class · October 27, 1968
- KENNETH WILLIAM RUBBOPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- CURTIS CHARLES KASTLERSpecialist Four · August 26, 1971
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.