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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 Steven Wayne Bradbury.

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STEVEN WAYNE BRADBURY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 19, 1949 – July 13, 1969

Service record

Steven Wayne Bradbury, of Wichita, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 13, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 110

Position of Panel 21W 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
January 19, 1949
Home of record
Wichita, Kansas (Sedgwick County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 13, 1969
Age
20
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date July 13, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 110

Same unit, same day

From Wichita

All 89 names from Wichita →

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.