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BARRY RUSSELL WOOD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 2, 1945 – November 2, 1966
Service recordBarry Russell Wood, of Bradford, Vermont, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Born
- August 2, 1945
- Home of record
- Bradford, Vermont (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 11
- AUGUSTINE LOPEZ JRLance Corporal · November 2, 1966
- GILMAN WILLIAM MCKAYLance Corporal · November 2, 1966
- ANDREW JAMES ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
- JESSE SAMARIPAPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
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.