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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Lewis Brown.

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RONALD LEWIS BROWN

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 10, 1948 – September 18, 1968

Service record

Ronald Lewis Brown, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 18, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 43W · Line 25

Position of Panel 43W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Radio Operator (05B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
January 10, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 18, 1968
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long 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.

Also on Panel 43W, Line 25

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.