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Sgt Stanley Howard Barrett

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Sgt Stanley Howard Barrett Veteran

Birth
Richmond, Ontario County, New York, USA
Death
3 Oct 1970 (aged 19)
Bình Định, Vietnam
Burial
Colonie, Albany County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Resurrection Garden 228-D
Memorial ID
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Sgt Barrett #10342052
MOS: 63C20 General Vehicle Repairman.

While living in Richmond his parents divorced and Stanley went to live with his mother and brother in Waterford, New York. Five months after his brother Stephen was killed in Vietnam and turning 18 year old, Stanley went and enlisted in the US Army 28 June 1968, at a recruiting office in Albany.
Arriving in Vietnam 2 September 1970, Stanley was assigned to A Troop, 1st
Squadron, 10th Calvary, 4th Infantry Division, USARV. The company was in a night defensive position and 21 kilometers northwesy of An Khe, when hostile forces fired a couple of B-40 rockets. Stanley and another soldier were wounded by shrapnel rom the rocket propelled grenades. Stanley was med-evac for medical treatment, at approximately 0200H to the 8th Field Hospital in Camp Radcliff and died there of his wounds, at approximately 0900H.
Survived by his mother, Shirley Horner of Spring Brook Mobile Home Park, Box 779, Waterford, New York and his father and stepmother; Oscar G and Jean Barrett of 1458 Seventh Avenue, Troy, New York.

Bronze Star Medal (Merit).

Brother of Stephen Clark Barrett another American Hero who lost his live in Vietnam.
Sgt Barrett #10342052
MOS: 63C20 General Vehicle Repairman.

While living in Richmond his parents divorced and Stanley went to live with his mother and brother in Waterford, New York. Five months after his brother Stephen was killed in Vietnam and turning 18 year old, Stanley went and enlisted in the US Army 28 June 1968, at a recruiting office in Albany.
Arriving in Vietnam 2 September 1970, Stanley was assigned to A Troop, 1st
Squadron, 10th Calvary, 4th Infantry Division, USARV. The company was in a night defensive position and 21 kilometers northwesy of An Khe, when hostile forces fired a couple of B-40 rockets. Stanley and another soldier were wounded by shrapnel rom the rocket propelled grenades. Stanley was med-evac for medical treatment, at approximately 0200H to the 8th Field Hospital in Camp Radcliff and died there of his wounds, at approximately 0900H.
Survived by his mother, Shirley Horner of Spring Brook Mobile Home Park, Box 779, Waterford, New York and his father and stepmother; Oscar G and Jean Barrett of 1458 Seventh Avenue, Troy, New York.

Bronze Star Medal (Merit).

Brother of Stephen Clark Barrett another American Hero who lost his live in Vietnam.


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