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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jeffry Arthur Larson.

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JEFFRY ARTHUR LARSON

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 15, 1947 – January 2, 1968

Service record

Jeffry Arthur Larson, of Denver, Colorado, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 19

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pioneer (12A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 15, 1947
Home of record
Denver, Colorado (Denver County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 2, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 19

Same unit, same day

From Denver

All 183 names from Denver →

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.