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THOMAS WALTER BARNARD
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 20, 1934 – September 8, 1968
Service recordThomas Walter Barnard, of Tuttle, Oklahoma, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 8, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 1
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
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Senior Sergeant (11G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 20, 1934
- Home of record
- Tuttle, Oklahoma (Grady County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 8, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1968; four of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 1
- BRUCE CALVIN CHRISTIANSpecialist Four · September 8, 1968
- RONALD BLAIR CLARKPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
- GERALD JOSEPH CLARKSONPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
- DALLAS REESE PRIDEMORESergeant First Class · September 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- REX RUSSELL SAGEColonel · Panel 44W, Line 6
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.