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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Edward Feldmann.

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BARRY EDWARD FELDMANN

Corporal · U.S. Army

April 6, 1946 – December 10, 1967

Service record

Barry Edward Feldmann, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 73

Position of Panel 31E 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. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
April 6, 1946
Home of record
St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 10, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 73

Same unit, same day

From St Louis

All 296 names from St Louis →

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.