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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mark Larry Brown.

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MARK LARRY BROWN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 19, 1950 – September 27, 1969

Service record

Mark Larry Brown, of Hampton, New Hampshire, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17W · Line 12

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
April 19, 1950
Home of record
Hampton, New Hampshire (Rockingham County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 27, 1969
Age
19
Country
Cambodia
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1969. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

Also on Panel 17W, Line 12

From Hampton

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.