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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 James Brady.

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JOHN JAMES BRADY

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

July 28, 1942 – April 3, 1968

Service record

John James Brady, of Tacoma, Washington, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47E · Line 46

Position of Panel 47E 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 28, 1942
Home of record
Tacoma, Washington (Pierce County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 3, 1968
Age
25
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47E, Line 46

Same unit, same day

From Tacoma

All 79 names from Tacoma →

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.