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BARRY LEE HEMPEL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 26, 1947 – May 10, 1968
Service recordBarry Lee Hempel, of Garden Grove, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 8
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Fire Control Man (0844)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D BTRY 2 BN 13 RGT 1 MARDIV
- Born
- July 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Garden Grove, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D BTRY 2 BN 13 RGT 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58E, Line 8
- CARL FRED GREENSpecialist Four · May 10, 1968
- PERRY EUGENE HANEYLance Corporal · May 10, 1968
- DONALD LEWIS HARDENSergeant · May 10, 1968
- LAWRENCE HARVILLEGunnery Sergeant · May 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS JOSEPH BLACKMANPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 4
- JOSEPH FRANCIS COOKLance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 5
- PAUL STEVEN CZERWONKAPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 6
- THOMAS WILLIAM FRITSCHLance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 7
- RAYMOND THOMAS HEYNELance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 9
- GERALD EUGENE KINGCorporal · Panel 58E, Line 10
- ROBERT CHARLES LOPEZPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 11
- WILLIAM DEE MCGONIGLEPrivate First Class · Panel 58E, Line 11
- DONALD WAYNE MITCHELLLance Corporal · Panel 58E, Line 11
From Garden Grove
- CARROLL MONROE BIERMAN JRCorporal · June 4, 1965
- ERNEST DARRELL MITCHELLPrivate First Class · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- MICHAEL ROY NELSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
- HARVEY RICHARD SANDERSCorporal · May 12, 1967
- JAMES PATRICK FITZSIMMONSLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- JON ROY HONRATHPrivate First Class · August 17, 1967
- ALLAN GEORGE KALFASLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- GARY LEE BARKERSergeant · October 17, 1967
- DENNIS REX ESTESPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
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.