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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Leigh Golden.

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BARRY LEIGH GOLDEN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 6, 1949 – April 1, 1969

Service record

Barry Leigh Golden, of Ferguson, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28W · Line 103

Position of Panel 28W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (61A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
May 6, 1949
Home of record
Ferguson, Missouri (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 1, 1969
Age
19
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1969; nine of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28W, Line 103

Same unit, same day

From Ferguson

All 12 names from Ferguson →

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.