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DALE LAVERNE MILBRADT
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 21, 1943 – April 11, 1969
Service recordDale Laverne Milbradt, of Topeka, Kansas, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 57
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Topeka, Kansas (Shawnee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 57
- MARTIN LECHUGACorporal · April 11, 1969
- STEPHEN MIX LEWISSpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
- MICHAEL ERNEST MATTASpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
- GONZALO H VILLASENORSpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM LEE OWEN JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 27W, Line 58
- LAWRENCE EDWARD ZAPOLSKISpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 59
- ALFRED WEBB JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 60
- DANIEL EUGENE WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 61
From Topeka
- RALPH GEORGE REDMONDFirst Lieutenant · June 4, 1964
- ALLEN LEE HOLTChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 5, 1965
- DALE K SHAMBAUGHSecond Lieutenant · August 18, 1965
- EUGENE MILLARD JEWELLCaptain · September 4, 1965
- RICHARD NORMAN PAYNELance Corporal · July 24, 1966
- GARY REED PARSONSPrivate First Class · September 26, 1966
- WILLIAM HARLEY MEANS JRColonel · July 20, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN SASEKCaptain · July 6, 1967
- JEROME GEORGE MCGOVERNSergeant · July 12, 1967
- ROBERT GENE KIMMELLieutenant Colonel · November 14, 1967
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.