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HENRY LARRY GOFF
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
January 21, 1948 – May 25, 1968
Service recordHenry Larry Goff, of Chesapeake, Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 68W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 68W · Line 1
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Chesapeake, Virginia (Chesapeake (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
89 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 68W, Line 1
- WILLIE JAMES FOSTERPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- STEVE GOMEZSergeant · May 25, 1968
- LINWOOD GOUGHCorporal · May 25, 1968
- WILLIAM ARLAND GRIFFISStaff Sergeant · May 25, 1968
From Chesapeake
- WILLIAM H COBURNPrivate First Class · February 23, 1966
- KERMIT ANTHONY RAYLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- FRED VINCENT LEELance Corporal · June 1, 1967
- DEWEY ALLEN MIDGETTPrivate · November 25, 1967
- LOUIS FRANKLIN STAPLESLance Corporal · February 5, 1968
- JAMES GUERDON SIGNETTSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- ELBERT ELISAH COX JRSergeant · May 1, 1968
- JOHN HENERY DIXONSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
- CLEM SPENCER LOWERY JRSergeant · May 30, 1968
- MELTON LAVONE KIDDPrivate First Class · June 9, 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.