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ROGER DAVID BROWN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
March 22, 1944 – August 15, 1969
Service recordRoger David Brown, of Natick, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on August 15, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 43
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. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- March 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Natick, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 15, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 43
- JAMES DWIGHT ANDERSONPrivate First Class · August 15, 1969
- FRANK CHARLES ARMIJOPrivate First Class · August 15, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL BOZINSKIWarrant Officer 1 · August 15, 1969
- DANIEL EDWARD CAREYPrivate First Class · August 15, 1969
From Natick
- THOMAS STEPHEN DONOVANPetty Officer Third Class · June 3, 1967
- DENNIS MICHAEL HIGGINSLance Corporal · June 21, 1967
- KEITH MICHAEL FLUMERECorporal · March 11, 1968
- JOHN MARTIN MADDEN JRPrivate First Class · April 25, 1969
- ELDON WILLIAM TOZERChief Petty Officer · November 20, 1969
- KEVIN FRANCIS LYNCHSpecialist Four · September 9, 1970
- RICHARD BENNETT RINEHARTCorporal · February 15, 1971
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.