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RICKY CURTIS BRADLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 17, 1949 – February 2, 1969
Service recordRicky Curtis Bradley, of Shirley, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 36
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Shirley, Arkansas (Van Buren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 36
- ROBERT LEROY ANDERSLieutenant · February 2, 1969
- LARRY EUGENE BOYERCorporal · February 2, 1969
- ALLEN DONIHUE CHESHIRESpecialist Four · February 2, 1969
- ALAN RYAN RAMSEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RENALD LUDGER GAGNEPrivate First Class · Panel 33W, Line 38
- JOHN JOSEPH SENORPrivate First Class · Panel 33W, Line 44
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.