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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Charles Willard Larman.

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CHARLES WILLARD LARMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 23, 1946 – May 19, 1967

Service record

Charles Willard Larman, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 46

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
36 AVN CO 13 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP
Born
November 23, 1946
Home of record
Oxon Hill, Maryland (Prince George's County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

69 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 46

From Oxon Hill

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.