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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Martin Brady.

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JOSEPH MARTIN BRADY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 25, 1945 – February 5, 1967

Service record

Joseph Martin Brady, of Weston, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 5, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 122

Position of Panel 14E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 25, 1945
Home of record
Weston, West Virginia (Lewis County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 5, 1967
Age
21
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date February 5, 1967; three of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 122

Same unit, same day

From Weston

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.