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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Barry Wayne Brickey.

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BARRY WAYNE BRICKEY

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 2, 1945 – April 2, 1967

Service record

Barry Wayne Brickey, of Roanoke, Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 90

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
July 2, 1945
Home of record
Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 2, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 90

From Roanoke

All 49 names from Roanoke →

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.