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BARRY LEE WOLK
Corporal · U.S. Army
January 22, 1944 – February 3, 1968
Service recordBarry Lee Wolk, of Hingham, Massachusetts, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Counterintelligence Analyst (97B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 525 MIL INTEL USARV
- Born
- January 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Hingham, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 3, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 14
- DALE HOWARD SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- MANUEL TIODORO SEGURAPrivate First Class · February 3, 1968
- RICHARD EUGENE STANTONHospitalman · February 3, 1968
- BOBBY ALLEN TAYLORCorporal · February 3, 1968
From Hingham
- CURTIS EDWARD CHASEFirst Lieutenant · May 6, 1967
- CHARLES THOMAS MCNUTTPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- WILLIAM BICKERS TERRYMaster Sergeant · March 8, 1969
- ROBERT EDWARD RYAN JRFirst Lieutenant · October 30, 1971
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.