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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 Tyrone Carlos Bradley.

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TYRONE CARLOS BRADLEY

Seaman · U.S. Navy

March 21, 1949 – February 8, 1971

Service record

Tyrone Carlos Bradley, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 8, 1971, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5W · Line 86

Position of Panel 5W 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman (SN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Storekeeper (SK)
Born
March 21, 1949
Home of record
Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 8, 1971
Age
21
Province
Kien Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date February 8, 1971; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 5W, Line 86

From Mobile

All 92 names from Mobile →

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.