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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Edwin Clark.

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BARRY EDWIN CLARK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 14, 1950 – December 12, 1970

Service record

Barry Edwin Clark, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 116

Position of Panel 6W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
5 INF DIV MECH
Born
October 14, 1950
Home of record
Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 12, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1970; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 116

Same unit, same day

From Newark

All 110 names from Newark →

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.