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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ivan Lloyd Barger JR.

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IVAN LLOYD BARGER JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 26, 1949 – August 25, 1970

Service record

Ivan Lloyd Barger JR, of Warner, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 3

Position of Panel 7W 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.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
March 26, 1949
Home of record
Warner, Oklahoma (Muskogee County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 25, 1970
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1970; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Warner

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.