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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Allen Jones.

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LARRY ALLEN JONES

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 15, 1948 – September 6, 1968

Service record

Larry Allen Jones, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 6, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45W · Line 53

Position of Panel 45W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 15, 1948
Home of record
St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 6, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

63 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45W, Line 53

Same unit, same day

From St Louis

All 296 names from St Louis →

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.