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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Joseph Barzan.

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JOHN JOSEPH BARZAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 10, 1926 – September 25, 1966

Service record

John Joseph Barzan, of Astoria, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 12

Position of Panel 11E 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
Born
March 10, 1926
Home of record
Astoria, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 25, 1966
Age
40
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date September 25, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 12

From Astoria

All 21 names from Astoria →

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.