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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Larry Anthony Crisci.

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LARRY ANTHONY CRISCI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 31, 1946 – May 17, 1967

Service record

Larry Anthony Crisci, of Astoria, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 13

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
January 31, 1946
Home of record
Astoria, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 17, 1967
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1967; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 117 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 13

Same unit, same day

From Astoria

All 21 names from Astoria →

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.