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JAMES PAUL BARTON
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
March 1, 1943 – March 19, 1967
Service recordJames Paul Barton, of Bates City, Missouri, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 109
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 68 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 1, 1943
- Home of record
- Bates City, Missouri (Lafayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “68 AVN CO 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 109
- FRANK LUTHER HUDDLESTONMaster Sergeant · May 17, 1966
- BENITO ALANIZSergeant · March 19, 1967
- JOSEPH CLAIR AUSTINColonel · March 19, 1967
- VIRIL LEE AUSTINSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- DAVID BAKERLance Corporal · March 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN NOBLE SHEFFIELDSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 115
- GILBERT NOLAN SMITHSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 116
- JOHNNY LEE WASHBURNSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 117
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.