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LARRY DALE MASSENGILL
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 12, 1950 – September 19, 1968
Service recordLarry Dale Massengill, of Chesapeake, Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 39
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle Crewman (1833)
- Born
- January 12, 1950
- Home of record
- Chesapeake, Virginia (Chesapeake (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 19, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 39
- CALVIN DAVID LARGOSpecialist Four · September 19, 1968
- BRUCE STANLEY LARSONPrivate First Class · September 19, 1968
- JOHN ALLEN LAVOOCaptain · September 19, 1968
- JOSEPH PAUL LOPEZCorporal · September 19, 1968
From Chesapeake
- WILLIAM H COBURNPrivate First Class · February 23, 1966
- KERMIT ANTHONY RAYLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- FRED VINCENT LEELance Corporal · June 1, 1967
- DEWEY ALLEN MIDGETTPrivate · November 25, 1967
- LOUIS FRANKLIN STAPLESLance Corporal · February 5, 1968
- JAMES GUERDON SIGNETTSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- ELBERT ELISAH COX JRSergeant · May 1, 1968
- JOHN HENERY DIXONSpecialist Four · May 16, 1968
- HENRY LARRY GOFFSergeant · May 25, 1968
- CLEM SPENCER LOWERY JRSergeant · May 30, 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.