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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 Terrill Edward Bradford.

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TERRILL EDWARD BRADFORD

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

May 5, 1950 – April 29, 1971

Service record

Terrill Edward Bradford, of Tullahoma, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 17

Position of Panel 3W 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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
May 5, 1950
Home of record
Tullahoma, Tennessee (Franklin County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1971
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 17

From Tullahoma

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.