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BARRY DANIEL MURPHY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
January 7, 1947 – March 18, 1969
Service recordBarry Daniel Murphy, of Cutler Ridge, Florida, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Cutler Ridge, Florida (Dade County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
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 29W, Line 69
- DARCY ALLEN HOUCHINPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- BARRY JACKSONSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- RAY RAMSEY JOWERSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- KENNETH JOSEPH KNOEFERLGunnery Sergeant · March 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MARGARITO FERNANDEZ JRSergeant First Class · Panel 29W, Line 68
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.