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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alexander Lorenzo Barney.

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ALEXANDER LORENZO BARNEY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 12, 1946 – September 10, 1966

Service record

Alexander Lorenzo Barney, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 82

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
December 12, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 10, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 82

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.