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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 George Bartle.

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BARRY GEORGE BARTLE

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 15, 1946 – May 28, 1968

Service record

Barry George Bartle, of Longwood, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 64W · Line 5

Position of Panel 64W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 15, 1946
Home of record
Longwood, Florida (Seminole County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 64W, Line 5

From Longwood

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.