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WILBERT RAY BARBEE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1947 – March 15, 1968
Service recordWilbert Ray Barbee, of Kenly, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 15, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 57
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Kenly, North Carolina (Johnston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1968; seven of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 57
- PAUL LEE BIGELOWPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
- DANNY EUGENE BLEVINSPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
- CHARLES LARRY BONNERSergeant · March 15, 1968
- SAMUEL JEROME FRIESONPrivate First Class · March 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GILLES DAVID ADAMSSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 56
- CHARLES LARRY BONNERSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 57
- THEODORE DANIEL BERNARDSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 58
- RICARDO CAMPOSPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 58
- MICHAEL ROY FINERTYPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 58
- JAMES MAYNARD JENSENCorporal · Panel 44E, Line 59
From Kenly
- THOMAS MCCRAYCorporal · January 4, 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.