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ELMER EDWARD BARR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 24, 1948 – March 30, 1969
Service recordElmer Edward Barr, of Clymer, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Clymer, Pennsylvania (Indiana County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 88
- THOMAS ARTHUR WIESECorporal · March 29, 1969
- MICHAEL LEE WILKINSSpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
- LYLE GLENN ASTONSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- RAYMOND BROWNSergeant · March 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RONALD GENE PACESpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 93
- CHESTER H TERRY JRSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 94
From Clymer
- FRANK ENZER WEISSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT PANTALLSergeant · November 3, 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.