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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Albert Dahms.

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LARRY ALBERT DAHMS

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

June 6, 1947 – November 17, 1970

Service record

Larry Albert Dahms, of Garwin, Iowa, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 17, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 6W · Line 66

Position of Panel 6W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Construction Electrician (CE)
Born
June 6, 1947
Home of record
Garwin, Iowa (Tama County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1970
Age
23
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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Five names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1970; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 6W, Line 66

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.