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SYLVESTER LEWIS BROWN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 11, 1948 – October 13, 1968
Service recordSylvester Lewis Brown, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 13, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 56
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Seaman (SN)
- Born
- May 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 41W, Line 56
- HERBERT JAMES WISHERSpecialist Four · October 12, 1968
- WILLIAM OLEN AUSTINPrivate First Class · October 13, 1968
- ALEXANDER BEARDStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1968
- JOHN DAVID BELLESCorporal · October 13, 1968
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
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.