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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bradley Louis Sinn.

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BRADLEY LOUIS SINN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 14, 1949 – August 11, 1969

Service record

Bradley Louis Sinn, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 11, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 5

Position of Panel 19W 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
Materiel Control And Accounting Specialist (76P)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
November 14, 1949
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 11, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 5

Same unit, same day

From Phoenix

All 207 names from Phoenix →

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.