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JOHN FREDERICK BARR
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
March 31, 1934 – October 18, 1967
Service recordJohn Frederick Barr, of Hope, Arkansas, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 18, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 33
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- March 31, 1934
- Home of record
- Hope, Arkansas (Hempstead County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1967
- Age
- 33
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 28E, Line 33
- JIMMY MAC BRASHERCaptain · September 28, 1966
- ROBERT YATES SRLance Corporal · October 17, 1967
- CLAUDE CHARLES BETTYCorporal · October 18, 1967
- JOSEPH OTIS BOOKERPrivate First Class · October 18, 1967
From Hope
- EDDIE LEROY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · July 29, 1967
- HAROLD ERVIN CUMBIEMaster Sergeant · November 21, 1967
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.