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LOUIE DON BRISCOE JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 30, 1939 – July 11, 1967
Service recordLouie Don Briscoe JR, of Aransas Pass, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1967, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 49
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
- Parachute Rigger (43E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 30, 1939
- Home of record
- Aransas Pass, Texas (Aransas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 11, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1967; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 23E, Line 49
- ASHER AUBREY ANTHONYPrivate First Class · July 11, 1967
- CHARLES NORMAN BROWNSpecialist Five · July 11, 1967
- ROBERT LEE CENTERSeaman · July 11, 1967
- THOMAS LEONARD CLELANDSpecialist Four · July 11, 1967
From Aransas Pass
- RAMON HERNANDEZ TORRESSergeant · November 24, 1967
- WILTON JAMES SULLINGER JRPrivate First Class · February 19, 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.