Service Number 2425888
Ground casualty - misadventure
Quang Nam Province
National Archives
Pfc. Barry Lon Unfried
Sept. 9, 1948-June 2, 1969
Oroville
Drawings by Barry
Unfried still grace the walls of his mother’s apartment.
She keeps a photo album that depicts his life from
babyhood through
grade school to the final ones showing a serious, chinless
man in fatigues holding an M-l6.
Born and raised
in Oroville. Unfried
graduated from
Oroville High School in 1967.
Faced with the
draft and at a time when the Air Force and Navy were refusing
new enlistments, Unfried enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly
after graduation.
On Memorial Day,
May 31, 1969, Untried had just returned from R & R and was
back with his unit near An Hoa. He was outside the perimeter
gathering unexploded U.S. ordnance when he stepped on a
mine or a shell blew up.
The Oroville Marine
died of his wounds three days later.
Courtesy Chico
News & Review, May 26, 1988
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