Allen Brackins
Staff Sergeant
C CO, 1ST BN, 2ND INFANTRY, 1ST INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Blakely, Georgia
December 12, 1930 to April 24, 1966
ALLEN BRACKINS is on the Wall at Panel 6E, Line 132

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20 Dec 2004

Sgt. Allen Brackins was what a Combat leader should be. He commanded your utmost respect. I respected him. He was not even my Platoon Sergeant, but I respected him.

I never thought he would die. To this day, when I think about it, which is often, I still am troubled by his death.

He was one of those men who you'd like to have a reunion with 25 years later, but who you'd still address as "Sergeant Brackins".

Men like him should not have died.


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

C Company, 1/2nd Infantry, lost five men on 24 April 1966:
  • SFC Billy A. Thompson, Harrisburg, PA
  • SSG Allen Brackins, Blakely, GA
  • SGT Robert L. Adams, Tarentum, PA
  • SGT Henry P. Pereda, Agana, GU
  • PFC Richard A. Recupero, Key West, FL
Two others, PFC David W. Terwilliger, Dearborn, MI, from "A" Company, and PFC John A. Fontaine, Methuen, MA, a medic from HHC, also were killed in action that day.

Allen Brackins,
Staff Sergeant, United States Army,
was buried on 04 May 1966 in Site 309, Section IV,
Fort Devens Post Cemetery,
Ayer, Massachusetts,
among other men of courage and integrity.


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