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FRANK LEROY BARBEE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 25, 1946 – August 28, 1966
Service recordFrank Leroy Barbee, of Lockhart, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 28, 1966, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 55
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Lockhart, South Carolina (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 28, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1966; three of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 55
- DONALD BOYD SMITHSergeant · August 28, 1966
- VICTOR M TOSADO-HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · August 28, 1966
- JOHN RICHARD BALLARDFirst Lieutenant · August 29, 1966
- MARTIN JAMES CONRADPrivate First Class · August 29, 1966
From Lockhart
- WALTER LEE BRANNONSpecialist Five · March 30, 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.