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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 Anthony Gordon Harbord.

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ANTHONY GORDON HARBORD

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

August 1, 1941 – January 27, 1969

Service record

Anthony Gordon Harbord, of Beverly Hills, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 27, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33W · Line 1

Position of Panel 33W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
August 1, 1941
Home of record
Beverly Hills, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1969
Age
27
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33W, Line 1

From Beverly Hills

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.