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JAMES LARRY HARRIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 9, 1946 – May 23, 1969
Service recordJames Larry Harris, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 84
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Fitzgerald, Georgia (Ben Hill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 84
- YVON ELDMOND GIROUARDPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- GARY ONEAL GRIFFINSpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- KENNETH WILLIAM GRUBBPetty Officer Second Class · May 23, 1969
- VAUGHN ONEIL HALLCorporal · May 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CLEVELAND BROWNINGCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 82
From Fitzgerald
- WAYNE LEE EVITTSpecialist Four · June 20, 1966
- ROBERT LEE SPIRESLance Corporal · March 5, 1967
- GEORGE ROGERS BENNETTSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- TOMMY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · February 24, 1969
- WILLIAM PRESCOTT ARTHURCorporal · June 19, 1970
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.