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HERBERT SPENCER BARNES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 11, 1951 – May 19, 1971
Service recordHerbert Spencer Barnes, of Bixby, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1971, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 41
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
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- February 11, 1951
- Home of record
- Bixby, Oklahoma (Tulsa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1971; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 41
- PHILIP RAY DEARINGFirst Lieutenant · May 19, 1971
- MIKLE EUGENE DIXONPrivate First Class · May 19, 1971
- MICKEY DANIEL LANGPrivate First Class · May 19, 1971
- HAROLD DEAN WALLERCorporal · May 19, 1971
Same unit, same day
- MICKEY DANIEL LANGPrivate First Class · Panel 3W, Line 41
From Bixby
- LARRY DON HUMPHREYSPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- FRED RAYMOND FRAZIER JRSpecialist Four · February 8, 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.