The Wall › Panel 27E › Michigan › Barry Alan Hunter
BARRY ALAN HUNTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 8, 1948 – October 9, 1967
Service recordBarry Alan Hunter, of Hazel Park, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 9, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 81
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Hazel Park, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 81
- DAVID LITTLEHALE FARLEYSpecialist Four · October 9, 1967
- GREEN LEE HARTPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- JIMMY ROSS HOHSTADTPrivate First Class · October 9, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD KNADLESecond Lieutenant · October 9, 1967
From Hazel Park
- MAX EUGENE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- JAMES CLIFTON LALONESpecialist Four · March 16, 1967
- STEVE SAMUEL GALLIS JRPrivate First Class · March 28, 1967
- RICHARD LAWRENCE WOLFEPrivate First Class · May 1, 1967
- GARY MARTIN KILLIANPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- DENNIS MICHAEL STEVENSCorporal · December 11, 1967
- MICHAEL A GRIEVESergeant · January 31, 1968
- JOHN MITCHELL MICHALSKISpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
- GARY CARL SEYMOURPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- HAROLD MICHAEL DAVIS JRCorporal · January 18, 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.