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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Edward Brown.

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ROBERT EDWARD BROWN

Corporal · U.S. Army

June 20, 1948 – March 20, 1967

Service record

Robert Edward Brown, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 118

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 20, 1948
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1967
Age
18
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1967; 20 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 118

Same unit, same day

From Chicago

All 955 names from Chicago →

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.