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LARRY CLARENCE KYAR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 6, 1943 – March 28, 1968
Service recordLarry Clarence Kyar, of Hanska, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 6, 1943
- Home of record
- Hanska, Minnesota (Brown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 56
- EMERSON PAUL COLESergeant · March 28, 1968
- PAUL DAVID KUEHLPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- FRANKLIN D LACEYPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- ROBERT ALAN LAFOUNTAINPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
From Hanska
- DENNIS WELDON WELLMANNLance Corporal · August 23, 1966
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.