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LARRY ALLAN STEPHENS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 28, 1944 – January 29, 1969
Service recordLarry Allan Stephens, of Travis Afb, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 29, 1969, in Laos, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Travis Afb, California (Solano County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 29, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 29, 1969. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 33W, Line 18
- JAMES WELDON THOMASHospitalman · January 29, 1969
- CARL JOSEPH ANDRUSPrivate First Class · January 30, 1969
- LUDWIG GEORGE BAUMANNMajor · January 30, 1969
- LEON BEARDPrivate First Class · January 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES DORIAN BULLARDStaff Sergeant · Panel 33W, Line 12
- BILLY JOE SIMMONSSergeant · Panel 33W, Line 17
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.