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THOMAS A BARRETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 14, 1947 – May 14, 1968
Service recordThomas A Barrett, of Harrogate, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Harrogate, Tennessee (Claiborne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 8
- JON ALLEN BAKERCorporal · May 14, 1968
- SEYMOUR R BASSMajor · May 14, 1968
- RICHARD JAMES BECK JRSpecialist Four · May 14, 1968
- DALE L BLUMECorporal · May 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD ANDERSONCorporal · Panel 60E, Line 7
- EDWIN PHILLIP DAVISPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 10
- LEE FRANCIS JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 60E, Line 12
From Harrogate
- CHARLIE MURPHY LEONARDSpecialist Four · August 28, 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.