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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 Robert Neal Bradley.

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ROBERT NEAL BRADLEY

Captain · U.S. Army

June 28, 1933 – March 21, 1967

Service record

Robert Neal Bradley, of Gaylord, Michigan, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 129

Position of Panel 16E 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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
498 MED CO USARV
Born
June 28, 1933
Home of record
Gaylord, Michigan (Otsego County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1967
Age
33
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “498 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 129

Same unit, same day

From Gaylord

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.