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THOMAS LOUIS BROWN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 30, 1946 – April 9, 1969
Service recordThomas Louis Brown, of Gunnison, Colorado, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 9, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 44
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
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Gunnison, Colorado (Gunnison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1969; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 44
- ROGER BROWNPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- RONALD CLARENCE CONLEYPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- GARY LEE CROSSSpecialist Four · April 9, 1969
- DAVID REID CROW IVWarrant Officer 1 · April 9, 1969
From Gunnison
- JOHN ROBERT SIEVERSLance Corporal · July 6, 1970
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.