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WALTER WILLIAM BROWN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 3, 1940 – November 5, 1965
Service recordWalter William Brown, of Waukegan, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 21
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 3, 1940
- Home of record
- Waukegan, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 5, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date November 5, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 21
- LARIS WHITE JRPrivate First Class · November 4, 1965
- JERRY DON BASDENSpecialist Four · November 5, 1965
- CLAYTON COLLINSPrivate First Class · November 5, 1965
- JOHN PAUL DUCHNOWSKILance Corporal · November 5, 1965
Same unit, same day
- CLAYTON COLLINSPrivate First Class · Panel 3E, Line 21
From Waukegan
- DAVID E BURKESPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- PATRICK JAMES HARRISPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- TERRY ALLEN PATTERSONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL MCCARTHY MANNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 7, 1967
- EDWARD STEVEN SACCOSpecialist Four · July 15, 1967
- PETER JOSEPH CANELAKESPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
- ERHARDT WILLIAM MATHIESENSergeant · November 22, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 1968
- RICHARD JOHN TURBITT JRSpecialist Four · April 20, 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.