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WILLIAM LEO BROWN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 20, 1934 – February 10, 1968
Service recordWilliam Leo Brown, of De Land, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 10, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Photographer (4631)
- Born
- January 20, 1934
- Home of record
- De Land, Florida (Volusia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 38E, Line 65
- BERNARD PAUL BREITENBACHSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- RAYMOND ARTHUR BURGESSLance Corporal · February 10, 1968
- GLENN HENRY CALVINStaff Sergeant · February 10, 1968
- CLARENCE RAY HOLTSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
From De Land
- CEASAR BRYANTSergeant · December 17, 1966
- MALCOLM GEOFFREY MOLEPetty Officer Third Class · January 21, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE FIELDSCaptain · March 26, 1969
- WARREN WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 22, 1969
- JERRY WAYNE POFFSpecialist Four · July 3, 1969
- JOHN HOOPER V HATHAWAYCaptain · October 11, 1969
- GEORGE ALFRED BIRDWELLSpecialist Four · May 25, 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.