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BARRY LEE MOYER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 30, 1948 – March 2, 1968
Service recordBarry Lee Moyer, of Reinholds, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- June 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Reinholds, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
100 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1968; 48 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 37
- WILLIE LEE MCGAUGHEYPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- DAVID CHARLES MOOREPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- LEONARD DAVID MOOREPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- CHARLES GEORGE REHBERGERSergeant · March 2, 1968
From Reinholds
- RANDY LEE JOHNSTONLance Corporal · September 26, 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.