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LARRY DALE BUNCH
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 26, 1942 – October 20, 1969
Service recordLarry Dale Bunch, of Glenaire, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 20, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 94
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- August 26, 1942
- Home of record
- Glenaire, Missouri (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 20, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 94
- JACK CALAMIASergeant · October 20, 1969
- JOSEPH VINCENT CAMERLENGOSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
- JAMES IVORY COLEMANCorporal · October 20, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD CONKRIGHTSergeant · October 20, 1969
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.