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ALLEN ROY BARNES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 26, 1947 – May 13, 1968
Service recordAllen Roy Barnes, of Aguila, Arizona, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 16
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Aguila, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 59E, Line 16
- PHILIP MILTON WOOTENPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- DONALD HENRY ZILLGITTPetty Officer Second Class · May 12, 1968
- JOHN AUSTIN ANDERSONSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
- THOMAS MASSIE BOYD IIICorporal · May 13, 1968
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.