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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bradley Allen Kinder.

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BRADLEY ALLEN KINDER

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 8, 1949 – February 8, 1970

Service record

Bradley Allen Kinder, of Bloomington, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 8, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 115

Position of Panel 14W 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
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 158 AVN BN
Born
November 8, 1949
Home of record
Bloomington, California (San Bernardino County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 8, 1970
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 115

From Bloomington

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.