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TYRONE BROWN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 27, 1949 – January 18, 1968
Service recordTyrone Brown, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 67
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 67
- SAMUEL BRUCE JRPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE CONDONLieutenant Commander · January 18, 1968
- CARL RAYMOND DAVISPrivate First Class · January 18, 1968
- RONALD HAL DERENBURGERSergeant · January 18, 1968
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.