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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bradley Keith Watts.

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BRADLEY KEITH WATTS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 19, 1948 – September 15, 1968

Service record

Bradley Keith Watts, of Harriman, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44W · Line 67

Position of Panel 44W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
January 19, 1948
Home of record
Harriman, Tennessee (Roane County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 44W, Line 67

Same unit, same day

From Harriman

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.