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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 Barnes Warland Rose JR.

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BARNES WARLAND ROSE JR

Major · U.S. Army

December 16, 1932 – November 4, 1967

Service record

Barnes Warland Rose JR, of Wilmington, California, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 21

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mechanized Cavalry Unit Commander (1620)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 16, 1932
Home of record
Wilmington, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1967
Age
34
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 21

Same unit, same day

From Wilmington

All 17 names from Wilmington →

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.