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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Woodrow Wilson Bradley JR.

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WOODROW WILSON BRADLEY JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 5, 1942 – November 1, 1968

Service record

Woodrow Wilson Bradley JR, of Charlotte, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 40W · Line 75

Position of Panel 40W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Fire Support Specialist (13F)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
August 5, 1942
Home of record
Charlotte, North Carolina (Mecklenburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1968
Age
26
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

67 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 40W, Line 75

Same unit, same day

From Charlotte

All 88 names from Charlotte →

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.