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KENNETH DONALD BARRY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 22, 1948 – January 8, 1968
Service recordKenneth Donald Barry, of Portland, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 79
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- January 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Portland, Oregon (Multnomah County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 79
- CHARLES LAWRENCE BIFOLCHIMajor · January 8, 1968
- HOWARD MATTHEW BISSENPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- RUSSELL KEITH BLATZSpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- LAWRENCE CORNELIUS COVINGTONPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CRAIG NOLAN MAYLance Corporal · Panel 33E, Line 89
From Portland
- RICHARD DALE BENZELSergeant First Class · December 6, 1962
- GEORGE WILLIAM WATSONSpecialist Five · December 18, 1963
- HAROLD JAMES ROBERTS JRMaster Sergeant · June 18, 1965
- TYRRELL GORDON LOWRYCaptain · June 18, 1965
- WILLIAM JOHN LAGRANDChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 5, 1965
- LARRY ALAN LINDSEYPrivate First Class · September 6, 1965
- DONALD WALTER LOVETTSpecialist Four · December 8, 1965
- DAVID JOHN BYSTEDTLance Corporal · January 11, 1966
- RAYMOND EARL BROWNLance Corporal · January 12, 1966
- JAMES LEE GARDNERCorporal · February 2, 1966
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.