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LARRY DALE MYERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 17, 1945 – January 11, 1967
Service recordLarry Dale Myers, of Camden, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 11, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Camden, Michigan (Hillsdale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 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
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 13
- ERNEST HOWARD WILSONCorporal · January 11, 1967
- ALVIE CLINTON WYATTPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- JACK LEE ALLENCorporal · January 12, 1967
- MANUEL BARRERAStaff Sergeant · January 12, 1967
- ALLAN DAVID TIMMERMANPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- G LYLE STETTENSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 12
From Camden
- WARREN LEROY ANDERSONColonel · April 26, 1966
- DAVID KEITH AESCHLIMANChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 16, 1970
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.