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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Dennis Brown.

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ROBERT DENNIS BROWN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 31, 1943 – June 18, 1965

Service record

Robert Dennis Brown, of Troy, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 62

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Born
January 31, 1943
Home of record
Troy, Ohio (Miami County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 18, 1965
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1965. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 62

From Troy

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.