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LARRY ALLEN MACKEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 27, 1946 – October 13, 1970
Service recordLarry Allen Mackey, of Polo, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 13, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 133 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 133
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- November 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Polo, Illinois (Ogle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 13, 1970
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1970; ten of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 133
- PHILLIP ARTHUR NICHOLSCaptain · October 13, 1970
- ALBERT MARSHALL REEDCorporal · October 13, 1970
- LAWRENCE MICHAEL SULLIVANFirst Lieutenant · October 13, 1970
- LARRY ALLEN WALKERSpecialist Four · October 13, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ANIBAL P LOZADA-WICHYSpecialist Four · Panel 7W, Line 132
From Polo
- CHARLES EDWARD HAZLIPSpecialist Four · October 29, 1968
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.