The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
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 Eric B Barrow JR.

The Wall › Panel 10E › Florida › Eric B Barrow JR

ERIC B BARROW JR

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 29, 1944 – August 19, 1966

Service record

Eric B Barrow JR, of Orlando, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 19, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 18

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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.

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mortarman (0341)
Born
December 29, 1944
Home of record
Orlando, Florida (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 19, 1966
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 18

From Orlando

All 93 names from Orlando →

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.