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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 Fred Garland Bragg JR.

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FRED GARLAND BRAGG JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

April 24, 1942 – July 12, 1967

Service record

Fred Garland Bragg JR, of Etna, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 12, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 55

Position of Panel 23E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
April 24, 1942
Home of record
Etna, Ohio (Licking County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 12, 1967
Age
25
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1967; 34 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 55

Same unit, same day

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.