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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 Thomas Paul Brady.

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THOMAS PAUL BRADY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 12, 1948 – July 22, 1967

Service record

Thomas Paul Brady, of Bakersfield, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 22, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 107

Position of Panel 23E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 12, 1948
Home of record
Bakersfield, California (Kern County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 22, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date July 22, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 107

Same unit, same day

From Bakersfield

All 55 names from Bakersfield →

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.