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JUNIOR WAYNE BARR
Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army
December 8, 1927 – May 22, 1968
Service recordJunior Wayne Barr, of Mouth Of Wilson, Virginia, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65E · Line 4
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
- Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- December 8, 1927
- Home of record
- Mouth Of Wilson, Virginia (Grayson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 65E, Line 4
- STEVEN LYNN ZOBELLance Corporal · May 21, 1968
- LEE MELLINGTON BARGERCorporal · May 22, 1968
- JERRY LEE CHAMBERSLieutenant Colonel · May 22, 1968
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.