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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Stuart Kyle.

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BARRY STUART KYLE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 10, 1946 – December 26, 1967

Service record

Barry Stuart Kyle, of Bradford, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 26, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 64

Position of Panel 32E 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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
June 10, 1946
Home of record
Bradford, Massachusetts (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 26, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 64

Same unit, same day

From Bradford

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.