Born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, Russell William Brown (1922-2018) attended school and listed "acting" as his career field when registering for the draft during World War II. Staff Sergeant Brown served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945 as a paratrooper with the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, F Company, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart. His four combat jumps - over Salerno and Sicily (Italy), Normandy (France), and Njimegen (Holland) – and that experience is included in Four Stars of Valor and All American, All the Way, books that chronicle the 505th PIR and 82nd Airborne Division. As a civilian Brown worked for E.I. DuPont. Around 1955 he married and the family lived in Georgetown, Kentucky. He died there on August 31, at age 96, and is buried in Section 3, Site 779.

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