Lieutenant Junior Grade Brewer was the pilot of an AD-4N Skyraider night dive bomber with Attack Squadron 45 aboard carrier USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CVA-39). June 19, 1953, while on a combat mission over North Korea, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed at latitude 38° 36' North, longitude 127° 36' East. He was killed instantly while trying to eject at a low altitude.