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JAMES FREDERICK BARNES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 12, 1939 – November 6, 1966
Service recordJames Frederick Barnes, of Laramie, Wyoming, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 6, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 32
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 12, 1939
- Home of record
- Laramie, Wyoming (Albany County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 12E, Line 32
- JAMES L WRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 5, 1966
- PERCY LEROY CAMPBELLMajor · November 6, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- BILLY MAX CRAWFORDMaster Sergeant · November 6, 1966
From Laramie
- GILBERT BYRON BUSHSecond Lieutenant · May 8, 1966
- RICHARD STEVEN BROWNPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD PANTIERPrivate · April 20, 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.