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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Conley Arlen Bradshaw.

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CONLEY ARLEN BRADSHAW

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 28, 1948 – June 2, 1968

Service record

Conley Arlen Bradshaw, of Church Hill, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 2, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 61W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 61W · Line 10

Position of Panel 61W 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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 28, 1948
Home of record
Church Hill, Tennessee (Hawkins County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 2, 1968
Age
19
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date June 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 61W, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Church Hill

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.