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LARRY DAVID MILLARD
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 20, 1947 – January 30, 1968
Service recordLarry David Millard, of Columbus, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 76
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Columbus, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; seven of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Khanh Hoa 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35E, Line 76
- MILOSLAV JOSE MARTINOVSKYStaff Sergeant · January 30, 1968
- MELVIN LEE MARTZPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- JACK ROGER MCKEESergeant · January 30, 1968
- PETE MELNICKSpecialist Four · January 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLIFFORD JONES JRSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 73
- JOSEPH C ZAMIARACaptain · Panel 35E, Line 84
From Columbus
- LAWRENCE CLAIR HAMMONDChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- JOHN FREDRICK STONEBURNERMajor · December 9, 1964
- TOMMY JOE BELCHERSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- ANDREW JACOB HINDERMANPrivate First Class · September 11, 1965
- WILLIAM BISHOP WOLFLance Corporal · October 14, 1965
- DENNIS SMITHCorporal · October 30, 1965
- CHARLES THOMAS MOORE JRSpecialist Five · November 17, 1965
- KENNETH POLINGSpecialist Four · November 21, 1965
- MORRIS LEE BARGYCorporal · November 29, 1965
- MORRIS E JENKINSSpecialist Five · December 2, 1965
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.