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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Richard George Barnard.

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RICHARD GEORGE BARNARD

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

November 30, 1937 – December 22, 1968

Service record

Richard George Barnard, of Rochester, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 22, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 61

Position of Panel 36W 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 30, 1937
Home of record
Rochester, New York (Monroe County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 22, 1968
Age
31
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date December 22, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Rochester

All 107 names from Rochester →

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.