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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jesse John Bradshaw.

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JESSE JOHN BRADSHAW

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

December 16, 1931 – December 17, 1968

Service record

Jesse John Bradshaw, of Willard, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 17, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 32

Position of Panel 36W 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. Air Force
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
December 16, 1931
Home of record
Willard, North Carolina (Pender County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 17, 1968
Age
37
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 32

From Willard

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.