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KENNETH RAY BARKLEY
Specialist Six · U.S. Army
June 24, 1941 – March 23, 1969
Service recordKenneth Ray Barkley, of Rector, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 16
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 Six (SP6)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Quality Control Supervisor (67W)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 24, 1941
- Home of record
- Rector, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 16
- LYNN CECIL WHITFORDSpecialist Four · March 22, 1969
- JAMES DAVID WRIGHT JRCorporal · March 22, 1969
- WILLIAM JOHN AHLUMCaptain · March 23, 1969
- TOMMY LEE BARNESSpecialist Five · March 23, 1969
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.