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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 James Alfred Brady SR.

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JAMES ALFRED BRADY SR

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

August 20, 1928 – July 2, 1968

Service record

James Alfred Brady SR, of Knoxville, Tennessee, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54W · Line 35

Position of Panel 54W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Automotive Maintenance Technician (631A)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
August 20, 1928
Home of record
Knoxville, Tennessee (Knox County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1968
Age
39
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 54W, Line 35

Same unit, same day

From Knoxville

All 76 names from Knoxville →

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.