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BARRENT OTTO TORGERSON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
February 10, 1948 – October 28, 1969
Service recordBarrent Otto Torgerson, of Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 129
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- February 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Turtle Lake, Wisconsin (Barron County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1969; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 129
- CHARLES EMIL MILLERSergeant · October 28, 1969
- DONALD LEE NEELEYSpecialist Five · October 28, 1969
- JAMES ALLEN ROBERTSStaff Sergeant · October 28, 1969
- RALPH DULANE TADEVICWarrant Officer 1 · October 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GARY ALLEN BESTSpecialist Five · Panel 17W, Line 126
- CHARLES F GAMBLE JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17W, Line 127
- DONALD LEE NEELEYSpecialist Five · Panel 17W, Line 129
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.