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BARRY ALAN BIDWELL
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
January 13, 1948 – June 18, 1971
Service recordBarry Alan Bidwell, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 18, 1971, in North Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 80
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VAQ130 USS ORISKANY CVA 34
- Born
- January 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Greensburg, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1971
- Age
- 23
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1971. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VAQ130 USS ORISKANY CVA 34”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 80
- PHILLIP LEWIS LEEFirst Lieutenant · June 17, 1971
- VINCENT WRIGHTPrivate First Class · June 17, 1971
- RAYMOND VINCE DEBLASIO JRLieutenant (junior grade) · June 18, 1971
- JOHN TILLMAN DOZIER IIStaff Sergeant · June 18, 1971
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ROBERT PAINTER JRLieutenant · Panel 3W, Line 81
From Greensburg
- EDWARD JOHN GINTERSpecialist Four · February 26, 1967
- ROBERT EARL STAUFFERSergeant · June 20, 1967
- TIMOTHY MORGAN DICKCorporal · December 11, 1967
- JOHN MICHAEL GALATAPrivate First Class · January 6, 1968
- RICHARD IVORY CULLENSergeant · May 23, 1968
- CHARLES KENTON BURKART JRLance Corporal · June 22, 1968
- VINCENT PISCAR JRLance Corporal · July 19, 1968
- GEORGE ROBERT GARRISPrivate · March 15, 1969
- FRED DEAN HIGHBERGER JRSergeant · October 26, 1969
- MICHAEL STEPHEN HRUTKAYPrivate First Class · November 8, 1969
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.