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MANUEL BARRERA
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 13, 1943 – January 12, 1967
Service recordManuel Barrera, of Hanford, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 13, 1943
- Home of record
- Hanford, California (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967; 12 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 13
- LARRY DALE MYERSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- ERNEST HOWARD WILSONCorporal · January 11, 1967
- ALVIE CLINTON WYATTPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- JACK LEE ALLENCorporal · January 12, 1967
- ALLAN DAVID TIMMERMANPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JACK LEE ALLENCorporal · Panel 14E, Line 13
- CHARLES WILLIAM JOHNSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 16
- CHARLES JOHN THOMAMajor · Panel 14E, Line 18
- BOBBY JOE WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 19
From Hanford
- HOWARD WILLIAM HENNINGERColonel · March 13, 1966
- JERRY WAYNE LOONEYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- RICHARD GENE OSBORNEPrivate First Class · June 21, 1967
- GAYLORD LEE WESTBAYWarrant Officer 1 · September 8, 1967
- LOUIE OCHOAPrivate First Class · October 18, 1967
- ROBERT R THOMPSONSergeant · April 5, 1968
- RICHARD JAVIER FLORESCorporal · May 10, 1968
- WAYNE JOHNATHAN ROGERSCorporal · November 27, 1968
- PATRICK ANTHONY WHITTENPrivate First Class · September 11, 1969
- KENNETH LEON MCCARTYSpecialist Four · April 13, 1970
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.