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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arnold Rex Bray.

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ARNOLD REX BRAY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 2, 1948 – April 27, 1969

Service record

Arnold Rex Bray, of Paris, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 59

Position of Panel 26W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 2, 1948
Home of record
Paris, Texas (Lamar County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 27, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969; six of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 59

Same unit, same day

From Paris

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.