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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Andre Barry Tims.

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ANDRE BARRY TIMS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 4, 1949 – March 21, 1971

Service record

Andre Barry Tims, of Hollis, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 64

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
5 INF DIV MECH
Born
July 4, 1949
Home of record
Hollis, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1971
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

Nine names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1971; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 64

Same unit, same day

From Hollis

All 13 names from Hollis →

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.