MTSU Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center
Roll of Honor
Brandon, Alfred J., Jr.
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According to Joe Nunley’s book, The Raider Forties, Alfred J. Brandon “was from Murfreesboro and a member of one of Tennessee’s better-known teaching families.” He joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 as a Pharmacist Mate after graduating from Middle Tennessee State College with a bachelor of science. He contracted plastic anemia during his service and died on September 26, 1945.