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JOHN PAUL BRAGA JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 25, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJohn Paul Braga JR, of Newport, Rhode Island, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Ordnance Supply And Part Specialist (76D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- May 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Newport, Rhode Island (Newport County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 34 of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Bien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 88
- STEPHEN LEE BRADDOCKSecond Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- CLYDE B BRAUGHTON JRSergeant · January 31, 1968
- JAMES ALOYISUS BRENNANCorporal · January 31, 1968
- DAVID CHAPPELL BROWNFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
From Newport
- JOSEPH RENE DUPEREStaff Sergeant · November 12, 1965
- BLANCHARD WARD COCHRANEStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1966
- ROBERT LLOYD MOSHERCaptain · May 26, 1967
- RICHARD EDWARD GREENE JRSergeant · June 22, 1967
- JOSEPH TOMMY VANDEVENDERCorporal · June 2, 1968
- JEREMIAH JOHN SAULNIERPlatoon Sergeant · July 15, 1968
- ALFRED N POTTERSergeant · April 10, 1970
- JOHN GLOVERAirman First Class · April 8, 1971
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.