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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bradford Scott Nickerson.

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BRADFORD SCOTT NICKERSON

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

March 18, 1946 – September 1, 1966

Service record

Bradford Scott Nickerson, of Stockton Springs, Maine, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 1, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10E · Line 60

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
March 18, 1946
Home of record
Stockton Springs, Maine (Waldo County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 1, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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Nine names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.