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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 Terry Lee Brown.

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TERRY LEE BROWN

Corporal · U.S. Army

November 20, 1951 – March 6, 1972

Service record

Terry Lee Brown, of Waycross, Georgia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1972, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 112

Position of Panel 2W 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
Regular
Occupation
Ammunition Specialist (55B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
November 20, 1951
Home of record
Waycross, Georgia (Ware County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 6, 1972
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1972; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1972, 69 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 112

Same unit, same day

From Waycross

All 14 names from Waycross →

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.