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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 William Martin Bradley.

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WILLIAM MARTIN BRADLEY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 27, 1948 – September 30, 1967

Service record

William Martin Bradley, of Syracuse, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 30, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 33

Position of Panel 27E 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
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
November 27, 1948
Home of record
Syracuse, New York (Onondaga County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 30, 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

12 names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 33

From Syracuse

All 58 names from Syracuse →

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.