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SHERMAN DUANE BRADFORD
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 8, 1949 – January 26, 1969
Service recordSherman Duane Bradford, of Arleta, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 26, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 81
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Arleta, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 34W, Line 81
- CHARLES MINOR WOODALL JRSpecialist Four · January 25, 1969
- JOSEPH ANTHONY AGUIRREPrivate First Class · January 26, 1969
- LORAN LEON BERGERSergeant · January 26, 1969
- MARTIN JOSEPH GIMBERTLance Corporal · January 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLARD JAMES EVANSSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 83
- JERRY LEE ONEALCorporal · Panel 34W, Line 90
From Arleta
- PAUL ALLEN COWANLance Corporal · May 17, 1969
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.