Rank: Private, Pv-2 (Army), Pvt (Airforce, Marine Corps)
Unit: I Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 27-Oct-1945
Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 1-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 22-Aug-1966
Incident date: 21-Mar-1967
Date of casualty: 21-Mar-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
William Arthur Brown was passenger in armored personnel carrier on ambush patrol when hit by fragments from hostile claymore mine.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PVT William Arthur Brown
SP4 Miles Joseph McLoughlin
SP5 German Lee Nicholson
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Detroit Memorial Park East, Warren, Michigan, USA
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