HONORED ON PANEL 63W, LINE 14 OF THE WALL
ROBERT CROZIER BARNES JR
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ROBERT C BARNES JR
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LEFT FOR ROBERT CROZIER BARNES JR
POSTED ON 6.21.2021
POSTED BY: john fabris
honoring you....
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. May you rest in eternal peace.
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POSTED ON 3.29.2021
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Final Mission of 2LT Robert C. Barnes Jr.
At 9:00 AM on May 26, 1968, a reconnaissance team from 1st Platoon, B Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, call sign Albrook, departed the helicopter pad at LZ Finch at Camp Reasoner near Da Nang in Quang Nam Province, RVN. The team was composed of eight Marines (including one officer) and one Navy corpsman. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance to detect possible Viet Cong (VC) troop movement or arms infiltration in Elephant Valley and establish a roving observation post to maintain surveillance on the valley to the east and southeast. On the fourth day of the mission, the patrol was engaged by an estimated forty VC wearing khakis and black pajamas and armed with AK-47’s and M16’s and carrying packs. The contact occurred while the patrol was in their extraction landing zone when they observed two VC moving down a streambed. The patrol took the VC under fire, killing both. Almost immediately, they came under fire from forty VC, resulting in one Marine killed, 2LT Robert C. Barnes Jr., and one wounded. The patrol requested artillery and fixed-wing air support. The planes remained on station while the patrol was extracted by helicopter; both the fixed-wing and extraction aircraft received heavy fire while the patrol was being picked up. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and Command Chronology, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, May 1968, at ttu.edu]
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POSTED ON 6.29.2020
POSTED BY: Carl Crowley
My "Big Brother"
Robert was my 1st cousin ( my father Carl Crowley was Robert's mother's Anne's brother). I was born in 1951 so was 7 years young than him. I wqas the oldest of four brothers and growing up Robert ws the closest thing I had to a big brother. I remember being so proud of him getting commissioned in the USMC and will never forget the shock and dismay of learning of his death in 1968. I was not yet 17 at the time. I will always remember you Robert. Please note that I have very few photos of Robert and so VERY much appreciated seeing the one that was posted here. I'm attaching my favorite photo of him taking at our grandmother's home sometime during 1954 ( note the canteen).
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POSTED ON 6.18.2020
POSTED BY: Dr.William A. Cain, DM, CAPT USN (Ret)