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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Bernard Broerman.

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BARRY BERNARD BROERMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

January 9, 1946 – April 11, 1967

Service record

Barry Bernard Broerman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 11, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 13

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
D CO 1 RECON BN 1 MARDIV
Born
January 9, 1946
Home of record
Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 13

From Cincinnati

All 226 names from Cincinnati →

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.