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LARRY AUSTIN FOSTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1949 – May 8, 1970
Service recordLarry Austin Foster, of Gastonia, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 131 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 131
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Gastonia, North Carolina (Gaston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1970; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 37 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 11W, Line 131
- GARY DEAN FRASHERFirst Lieutenant · May 8, 1970
- CHARLES JOHN HEIN JRStaff Sergeant · May 8, 1970
- PATRICK ERNEST HENNENSergeant · May 8, 1970
- DAVID JEROME HUBERTYSergeant · May 8, 1970
From Gastonia
- MAUSBY EDWARD HYLEMANSpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
- CARL DUANE PRUITTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- ROBERT STEVEN KEENERPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- DONALD TERRY HELTONSpecialist Four · April 3, 1967
- TONY LEE VAN WHITELance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- CARL HORACE WALL JRLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- MICHAEL YATES KEETERPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- GLENN WILLIAM RAMEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- ROGER LYNN COUICKPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 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.