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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Lee Braden.

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TERRY LEE BRADEN

Seaman · U.S. Navy

October 20, 1946 – January 23, 1967

Service record

Terry Lee Braden, of Liberty, Missouri, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 23, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 68

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
October 20, 1946
Home of record
Liberty, Missouri (Clay County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 23, 1967
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1967; six of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 68

From Liberty

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.