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BRADLEY BOWLING
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 12, 1946 – May 27, 1968
Service recordBradley Bowling, of De Mossville, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 27, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 5
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 12, 1946
- Home of record
- De Mossville, Kentucky (Pendleton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 65W, Line 5
- FIDELE JOSEPH BASTARACHESergeant · May 27, 1968
- WILLIAM FRANCIS BRICE JRSergeant · May 27, 1968
- LARRY JAMES BURKHARDTPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- LARRY ANTHONY CARAVETTAPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
From De Mossville
- WILLIAM CLAYTON RAYSergeant · July 4, 1970
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.