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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Louis Barnhart.

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JOHN LOUIS BARNHART

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 17, 1947 – November 13, 1967

Service record

John Louis Barnhart, of Greenville, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 87

Position of Panel 29E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
May 17, 1947
Home of record
Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 13, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 87

Same unit, same day

From Greenville

All 52 names from Greenville →

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.