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WILLIAM B BROWN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 18, 1934 – July 22, 1967
Service recordWilliam B Brown, of Immokalee, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 22, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 107
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 18, 1934
- Home of record
- Immokalee, Florida (Collier County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 22, 1967
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date July 22, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 107
- THOMAS PAUL BRADYPrivate First Class · July 22, 1967
- WILLIAM BOYD GRAVESCaptain · July 22, 1967
- CHARLES RAYMOND LEONARDSpecialist Four · July 22, 1967
- ROBERT MATRANGASpecialist Four · July 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PAULINO GUTIERREZ LOPEZPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 106
- WILLIAM SAMPSON WHITECorporal · Panel 23E, Line 108
From Immokalee
- CHARLES W MCKINNIE JRSergeant · April 27, 1967
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.