Michael Gregory Brown
Specialist Four
DET A-433 (MY AN), SIGNAL CO, 5TH SF GROUP, USARV Army of the United States El Segundo, California February 07, 1948 to June 28, 1967 MICHAEL G BROWN is on the Wall at Panel 22E, Line 76 |
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Mike, you were killed along with my classmate Ed Shubert on the same day. I am trying to find information on the incident. Rest in peace, Green Beret, rest in peace with the others. None of you are forgotten even as we who survived get older.
1LT Elmer Pence |
REMEMBEREDby his best friend,Lonny D Hammond 10 Oct 2006 Mike, I think about you every day of my life. Remember our hunting fiasco just before we left for Vietnam? You are a friend as much in death as you were in life. We laughed and fought side by side together. You will forever be in my thoughts. You and and I were more like brothers than anything and we were blessed by God to have had the opportunity to know each other. I'll see you on the big battlefield in the sky some day. Until then I salute you - you are a true AMERICAN HERO.
Respectfully, Lonny D. Hammond 1300 McCarroll Street, Clarkston, Wa 99403 lshamm@clarkston.com |
Michael Gregory Brown,
From a friend, |
I went to school with Mike in the early years and many years later it still makes me sad to read this. He was a great guy.
From a friend, |
Uncle Mike, I wish I had known you. If any one has information they can share with me I would like that very much.
From his niece, |
A Note from The Virtual WallThere is some confusion regarding unit assignments and locations for three Special Forces members killed in action in southwestern South Vietnam on 28 June 1967. The three men are
Second, the Special Forces "Killed in Action" list contains the following for the three men:
Third, Kelley's Where We Were in Vietnam puts the Special Forces Camp at My An/My Da in Kien Tuong Province, and the Special Forces camp at Nui Trong in Chau Doc Province. For information, all three provinces mentioned bordered one another and the SVN/Cambodian border ... northeast-to-southwest, there was Kien Tuong just south of the Parrot's Beak, then Kien Phuong, then Chau Doc. As noted above, the SF/KIA list says 1LT Shubert's unit, A-429, was renamed A-421 ... and it was, according to Stanton's Vietnam Order of Battle, on 01 July 1967. But Stanton places A-421 at Ba Xoai, Kien Tuong Province, on 01 Jul 1967.
What to make of all this? The Virtual Wall isn't sure, but it appears that the SF/KIA listing has the wrong Province for Det A-433 at My An ... it should be Kien Tuong Province. Second, 1LT Shubert's unit was in the process of moving and being redesignated, going from A-429 at Nui Tuong, Chau Doc Province, to A-421 at Ba Xoai, Kien Tuong Province. Fortunately, 1LT Shubert's Citation for the Silver Star clarifies matters: He was indeed involved in the action at Det A-433, My An, Kien Tuong Province - and it therefore seems certain that all three men were involved in the same action. |
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