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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Martee Bradley JR.

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MARTEE BRADLEY JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 8, 1948 – December 8, 1968

Service record

Martee Bradley JR, of Ecorse, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 61

Position of Panel 37W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 8, 1948
Home of record
Ecorse, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 8, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

59 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Ecorse

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.