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LYLE EUGENE DROWN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 21, 1947 – April 15, 1969
Service recordLyle Eugene Drown, of Kimberly, Idaho, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 86
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Small Arms/Artillery Repairer (45B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- October 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Kimberly, Idaho (Twin Falls County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1969; 16 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 86
- RAFAEL DELEON JRPrivate First Class · April 15, 1969
- JAMES WILBERT DERBYSHIREPrivate First Class · April 15, 1969
- DOYLE DANIEL DUNBARSpecialist Five · April 15, 1969
- BRUCE GARY FRIELCorporal · April 15, 1969
From Kimberly
- JACK LEROY DODSONFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 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.