Loss Coordinates Map

Name:

Frank Monroe Brown Jr.

Branch / Rank:

Unit:

VF 151, USS Constellation

Date of Birth:

December 18, 1938

Home of Record:

Tunkhannock, PA

Date of Loss:

September 19, 1966

Country of Loss:

South Vietnam Over Water

Loss Coordinates:

184217 North 1073628 East

Status (in 1973):

Killed in Action/Body not Recovered

Category:

5

Duty:

F4B Pilot   (Tail No.152315)

Other personnel in incident:

DAVID HENRY, Killed in Action/Body not Recovered

Remarks:

Gulf of Tonkin, 120 miles out, probably near ship

CACCF CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.

According to a message left on the Virtual Wall by a fellow sailor, Lt. Brown's aircraft went into the sea as a result of a bad catapult from the USS Constellation.

Incidental Information

Click Here to view a queried report of messages and files concerning Frank Brown from the POW/MIA Database at the Library of Congress's Federal Research Division. (Links will open in New Browser Window).
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