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CARL RAY BARNHART
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 26, 1949 – November 25, 1967
Service recordCarl Ray Barnhart, of East Peoria, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 25, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 83
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 26, 1949
- Home of record
- East Peoria, Illinois (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 25, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kontum
- 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 November 25, 1967; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 30E, Line 83
- GEORGE ROJAS YCOCOSeaman · November 24, 1967
- LEWIS HERBERT ABRAMSColonel · November 25, 1967
- BORIS FRANZ M BORENSTEINCorporal · November 25, 1967
- JAMES FREDERICK BROWNPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS CURTIS MAYSSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 87
From East Peoria
- BERNARD CHARLES MATTSONPrivate First Class · January 12, 1968
- WILLIAM DERRILL TRENTLance Corporal · May 8, 1968
- JOHN EMORY MILESPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- BENJAMIN H BINEGAR JRSpecialist Four · February 4, 1969
- RUSSELL EUGENE MOKEFirst Lieutenant · February 7, 1969
- CLIFFORD IVAN WRIGHTSergeant · October 12, 1970
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.