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JEFFREY LAWRENCE BARKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 1, 1946 – June 8, 1967
Service recordJeffrey Lawrence Barker, of Ridgefield, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 72
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Ridgefield, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1967; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 72
- RONALD ANTHONY WILLIAMSLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- LARRY EUGENE WORTHENPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- EDWARD SATORU YAMASHIROSpecialist Four · June 7, 1967
- WILLIE JAMES MOOREPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD JAMES CARTERPrivate First Class · Panel 21E, Line 73
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.