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BARRY ALAN ZAVISLAN
Captain · U.S. Army
September 25, 1937 – March 6, 1967
Service recordBarry Alan Zavislan, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1967, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 33
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 25, 1937
- Home of record
- Uniontown, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1967; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuy Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 33
- CAROLD REX WAITESecond Lieutenant · March 6, 1967
- RICHARD WESSELLance Corporal · March 6, 1967
- FREDRICO ARNADOStaff Sergeant · March 7, 1967
- KENNETH HAROLD ARNOLDPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
From Uniontown
- JOSEPH GEORGE EVANS JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JULIUS JOSEPH VALINT JRLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- EARL FREDERICK BURKESergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE FIKELance Corporal · October 18, 1968
- SAMUEL DALE SHIMEKSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- LOUIS GERARD WHEELERSergeant · March 16, 1969
- HORACE LEE WARDELLPrivate · August 20, 1970
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.