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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Fredrick Bradman.

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JOHN FREDRICK BRADMAN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

March 23, 1946 – February 18, 1970

Service record

John Fredrick Bradman, of Bordentown, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 26

Position of Panel 13W 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
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 23, 1946
Home of record
Bordentown, New Jersey (Burlington County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 18, 1970
Age
23
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

From Bordentown

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.