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CARL TAYLOR BARNETT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 7, 1945 – May 18, 1970
Service recordCarl Taylor Barnett, of Bluffton, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 60
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Bluffton, Indiana (Wells County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 60
- MARK WARREN BACHERSergeant · May 18, 1970
- GARY WILLIAM BRITTONStaff Sergeant · May 18, 1970
- ROBERT KENNETH COLEWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 1970
- ALBERT B CROUCHWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 1970
Same unit, same day
- HARVEY GENE GRAHAMSpecialist Four · Panel 10W, Line 61
From Bluffton
- CAREY WAYNE ELLENBERGERPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- WILLIAM GLEN FERGUSONMaster Sergeant · August 13, 1967
- THOMAS WAYNE BISHOPPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- DAVID BORNE PLATTSpecialist Four · June 4, 1969
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.