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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 Louis Lloyd Bradley JR.

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LOUIS LLOYD BRADLEY JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 27, 1948 – May 16, 1968

Service record

Louis Lloyd Bradley JR, of Metairie, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 61E · Line 6

Position of Panel 61E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
December 27, 1948
Home of record
Metairie, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
May 16, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

80 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 61E, Line 6

From Metairie

All 18 names from Metairie →

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.