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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Lyle Gibson Brooks.

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LYLE GIBSON BROOKS

Major · U.S. Army

May 6, 1936 – September 29, 1968

Service record

Lyle Gibson Brooks, of Ogunquit, Maine, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 42W · Line 38

Position of Panel 42W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
May 6, 1936
Home of record
Ogunquit, Maine (York County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 29, 1968
Age
32
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 42W, Line 38

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.