BRADY, ALLEN COLBY

RIP  04/24/2025

Name: Allen Colby Brady
Rank/Branch: O5/United States Navy, pilot
Unit: VA 85
Date of Birth: 15 Augiust 1929
Home City of Record: Norfolk VA
Date of Loss: 19 January 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates:
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A
Missions: 17
Other Personnel in Incident: William Yarbrough, missing
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Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews.  2025

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Allen Brady retired from the United States Navy as a Captain in 1979. He and
his wife Dianne reside in Florida. Allen has a son and daughter, and one
grandson.

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https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/vietnam-pow-allen-brady-talks-surviving-aortic-valve-disease

Survivor: Allen Brady has made it through 6 years as a POW and Aortic Valve Disease

ERIC DEHM
JUNE 21, 2019 - 2:09 PM

There are people in this world who, no matter what you're going through, have had it worse. Allen Brady is
one of them.

The retired Navy Captain was flying his A-6 Intruder on a mission to take out a North Vietnamese bridge on
January 19th, 1967. And then, suddenly everything went wrong. He'd been hit and he was going down. ...

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05/04/2025

I just got the news.  Al will be buried at Barrancas National Cemetery, Cemetery Road, NAS Pensacola,
FL 32508;   15 May 2025.   1:30 to 2:00 PM.
 
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/pensacola-fl/allen-brady-12355419
 
MMc

 

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