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BOBBY LEE BARBER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 27, 1947 – November 2, 1967
Service recordBobby Lee Barber, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 8
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 29E, Line 8
- DAVID ALEXANDER WOODSSergeant First Class · November 1, 1967
- WILLET RANKIN AMENDOLACorporal · November 2, 1967
- KENNETH JACOB ARENTSergeant · November 2, 1967
- STEPHANO JAMES FIDUCIOSOPrivate · November 2, 1967
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
- VERNELL HENRY MILLER JRPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
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.