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BARRY HOWARD BERGER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 27, 1949 – January 10, 1971
Service recordBarry Howard Berger, of Hyattsville, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 10, 1971, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 36
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)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- June 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Hyattsville, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 10, 1971
- 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
11 names on the Wall carry the date January 10, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 36
- CRAIG ALAN SYSAKCorporal · January 9, 1971
- GORDON LEE WIRTH JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 9, 1971
- WILLARD EVERETT WOODYSpecialist Four · January 9, 1971
- CECIL EUCLED CALLANDERPrivate First Class · January 10, 1971
From Hyattsville
- UWE-THORSTEN SCOBELCaptain · March 25, 1964
- JOHN QUINCY QUESENBERRYPrivate First Class · July 9, 1966
- STEPHEN MICHAEL DYDYNSKIPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- PAUL LEROY HARRISONPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JOSEPH RAYMOND SMITHSpecialist Four · April 17, 1967
- DAVID KEITH HOLDWAYLance Corporal · May 3, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES HOOVERPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- THOMAS RAY KINGWarrant Officer 1 · December 16, 1967
- ALTON LAMOTTE WATKINS JRCorporal · January 2, 1968
- EUGENE EDWARD SWIFTSeaman · March 9, 1968
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.